SEIU: Locked Out Nurses Are Standing Up For Improving Patient Care

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/4804

SEIU: Locked Out Nurses Are Standing Up For Improving Patient Care

By Doug Cunningham

SEIU’s Chris Coil says hundreds of nurses locked out by Universal Health Systems at two Las Vegas hospitals want staffing changes to properly care for patients.

: “What the nurses are standing up here for is to improve the health care of the Las Vegas community. It is astounding that this corporation has not only rejected their voice, not only rejected the request of Nevada’s elected leadership, but is now rejected patients by creating an unnecessary, unethical and illegal l lockout.”

Coil says the corporation is refusing to listen to the nurses and to Nevada’s government to find a just resolution of the hospital staffing dispute.

: “This hospital chain has made a very strong attempt to intimidate, interrogate, spy on their nurses. They’ve brought in union busters. Right now you see a campaign that’s going on by these hospitals to silence these nurses.”