WHC Nurses Approve One-Day Strike

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

“Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week, Nurses United members came together and voted in huge numbers to strike for one day over the unfair treatment and disrespect shown to us by [Washington Hospital Center] management during and after the snowstorms in February,” reports Nurses United. An overwhelming 80% of voting members agreed to the strike action, the timing of which will be announced in the coming days. WHC management “will most likely begin to prepare by bringing in scab nurses as temporary staff while we are out on strike,” adds Nurses United. “We know from the past that these temporary nurses are unprepared for the patient acuity that Nurses United members deal with on a daily basis. The scab nurses do not know Washington Hospital Center, they are unfamiliar with the high standards held by Nurses United RNs, and they may not give patients the highest quality of care they have come to expect. We hope that management will take this opportunity to do the right thing.” Watch Union City for further details.