Nurses union on a rampage

First the teachers, now the nurses.  We have been hiring these folks to three years, and this is not stopping.  Nurses are becoming housing agents and hallway monitors, teachers double duty as hired government parents.   Government unions  run an animal farm.
Bernie has the nurses, so they get a chip in the budgets, add another 30 billion/yr or 200 billion in new spending.

That is a lot of ice to melt. I doubt we can find the excess profits to tax in this small profit recession. Another shutdown might be looming. When interest charges are growing greater than 5%, government pricing does not work, velocity equation fails ex ante.

Nurses at two of the Bay Area’s top-ranked hospitals are threatening to strike, joining a national conversation over the effects of understaffing in the health care industry.The union representing nurses at Stanford Health Care and Packard Children’s Hospital announced Thursday that 85 percent of its 3,700 members voted to authorize a strike.

“We’ve been suffering from understaffing for quite some time — in some units up to a year,” said Colleen Borges, a pediatric oncology nurse and the union’s president. “We need to look competitive and offer a great package so that when new nurses come to the Bay Area, they choose to come to our hospitals.”The Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement or CRONA has represented nurses at Stanford and Packard for more than 50 years.CRONA’s contract for its Stanford and Packard nurses expired March 31.Since January, union leaders and hospital representatives have worked to negotiate a new, agreeable contract.Although both sides have made compromises, union leaders say that the proposed contract does not offer the wages, benefits and working conditions the nurses need and deserve.CRONA’s decision to authorize a strike comes just weeks after more than 10,000 nurses at three of New York’s biggest hospital systems also threatened to walk out. Earlier this week, however, the New York State Nurses Association successfully negotiated a contract to hire more than 1,400 additional nurses and establish minimum ratios of nurses to patients, according to a release from the union.Nurses at Stanford and Packard are asking for wage increases in line with the Bay Area’s escalating cost of living, better retiree medical benefits, increased protections for part-time employees and a more robust workplace violence program.