The powerful three-day strike of more than 7,000 nurses in New York City was abruptly shut down by New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) officials.
While the union says the deal is a major victory, in reality, it is a repackaging of the same rotten terms imposed on 10,000 nurses at other NYC hospitals. It will do nothing to significantly alter the dangerous understaffing that nurses face, which was the central aim of the strike.
Nurses must establish a rank-and-file committee to defeat this sellout.
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The tentative agreement reached Thursday for 7,000 striking nurses in New York City does nothing to address the core staffing issues at stake in the strike.
Meet the rank-and-file nurses and healthcare workers fighting for patient safety and better wages.
The fundamental issue that underlies this struggle is the irreconcilable conflict between the interests of public health and the private profit interests of the hospital executives and the Wall Street-directed capitalist health care system.
To prevent the impending sellout, all public sector workers must break free of the control of Verdi and the other unions and build independent rank-and-file committees.
Although Quebec’s nurses have been complaining bitterly about forced overtime and inhumane working conditions for years, the province's premier tried to present the dispute as an isolated problem.
On the picket lines physiotherapists emphasised the issues of patient safety, stress and burnout, which have been highly exacerbated by staff shortages among physiotherapists.
The DSA is a pro-capitalist organization staffed by union functionaries, Democratic Party officials and other careerists whose role is to prevent workers, who are becoming radicalized and moving to the left, from finding a genuinely independent road.
The WSWSHealth Care Workers Newsletter fights to unite all health care workers with the entire working class to maintain safe working conditions, oppose hospital closures and layoffs, and defend the right to high quality health care.
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