Travel nurse fired amid Oahu nurse strike, lockout 

Make no mistake, this is the battle line between those who care about patient care, and those who only care about hospital profits. Private equity has taken over the medical system.

I wouldn't doubt it if the whole story is not being reported.

No , I’m sure the hospital is not retaliatory. Ha! Gidget always fails to mention the usual 3day week consists of 12 hour shifts so OT doesn’t start immediately past your 36 hours (though the fatigue does).

The CEO sounds like she’s “Strong Arming 💪🏼” the nurses

I stand with the nurses. They put their lives on the line throughout the worst of the pandemic, oftentimes working without proper PPE and under immense stress. They deserve our support now. The CEO sounded a bit thuggish in her response.

Then NO RAISE AND HIRE MORE NURSES

I understand the staffing problem, but why increase the RN's wage when they're getting paid a lot already? Increase the support staff's wage instead.

130-160k for 3 day workweek. Wowlaulau

Gidget “Except unconditionally”?! Did I hear that right? Except unconditionally? That’s a term referencing negotiations? So this is what the nurses are dealing with…

That's why health care costs are ridiculous. They say it's about patient safety. Take less money so they can hire more nurses/nurses assistants

The toxic side of nursing 😢

It's obvious that staffing shortages is the issue, not the money, when the COO always talks about how much they're paying the nurses or how many days they work a week but never mentions if the hospital is adequately staffed.

My wife just gave birth there last week with only one nurse and doctor in the room the whole time it seemed they was short staffed but I can say it was the most awesome experience ever nurse, staff, doctor where amazing thank you again

If you’re doing the job of 2 people, you should be entitled to earn 2x the wage.

Everyone always says it’s not just about the money, but it’s ALWAYS about the money. They tag on other reasons for the strike just not to seem too greedy. $130k-$160k for 3 12 hour days is pretty generous even by mainland standards. That’s not counting the overtime they would get. I have family member that’s a nurse in San Diego that makes about the same. If they hire more nurses, they will lose overtime, and they will probably complain about that too. When you sign up to be a nurse, you should know it’s not an easy job, sometime you have more patients, like during COVID times, sometimes less. Nurses have the top paying job on the island, but they are masking the greed by saying they it’s all about patient safety. Does a barista get to say they only expect to serve 10 customers a day? Does a server get to strike because there are double the customers on Mother’s Day? I guess if they are in a union, they probably would. Haha. Being in a union emboldens people to strike because they think it shields them from getting fired. I appreciate the hard work the nurses do, but I do not empathize and support their strike. What job isn’t crappy and hard? I like to see the firemen strike because there are too many fires in a year. Ridiculous!

$130-$160K per year for a three day work week is a good compensation package.

the root cause of all this is that companies cannot pay fair/competitive wages in hawaii.. for a single person to live mainland equivalent basic middle class life... (your own apt/house, no roommates) 70k - who pays that here, on average? besides upper management?

I would take a copy of this CEO’s statement to the Labor Board and Strong-arming the negotiations . That was foul

3 day worked week for 160k, not even the active military have that for a contract.

Corporate greed don't blame the workers for what the hospital charges i support the nurses

Is travel nurse more expensive. They have to pay for room and board, also food allowance. Then good hospital is paying double what they would be paying our nurse. I give 1 week hospital will give in

Bunch of wannabe corporate CEO's in the comments lol. Everyone who has worked for a crony corporate company knows the term " WE ARE GOING TO DO MORE WITH LESS" while executives reap the financial benefits. Understaffing is just ONE of those issues to deal with.

"WOW!"

Happy birthday sweetheart! 👏👏👏

They providing great quality care sitting out on the picket line

And they wonder why Hawaii is lacking caring nurses, or any other health professionals! Profit over people is the worse!

Take half the pay and they can take that money and hire more nurses, let’s see how that is going to work, it’s a business

Coerced into caring. Disempowering, demoralizing, and deflating to surrender power of agency. Soul sucking sacrificing lends to toxic unreciprocated power dynamics. Salaries are the false veneer and distraction. Salaries signal surrendering and sacrifice at the cost of what professional dignity? Returning to an unbalanced power dynamic is like returning to a toxic bad relationship. The contempt, resentment, or mind numbing dissociation or blatant addictive coping mechanisms should tie workers compensation cases with the amount of causation and workforce unwellness that is messaged. Especially in an desert environment of a high cost of survival.

keep voting democrat

that's where i'm from 😅

everyone scared of hard work these days

NURSES ARE EXPENDABLE...

Ban unions. Vote Trump

Strike nurses making that bank, yall don’t wanna work well lesser paid workers from Florida and all over the south will glad come work for what these nurses take for granted. 160k for 3 days work week!!!!

This hospital is ….not pro Union. I stand by these union nurses. Give them everything they ask for in their contract.

Shame on all travel scabs. Undermining the strike by helping the management.

We work 36 hours per week or more for those 3 weekly workdays and they don’t give us our mandated breaks for which they pocket our productivity. They are drowning us with 6:1 patient to nurse ratio when most of the Continent is 4:1, they expect us nurses to do 50% more workload to enhance their bottom line vs considering safer ratios and improved quality of healthcare and avoid staff burnout. That goes for children patients too! They offered us 3%, 3%, and 4.5% annual raises that never catch us back up to the outrageous Hawai’i inflation. We do not come close to making $160k per year we make $110-$120k. Before 2020 a nurse could buy a single family home now we can’t. Enough is enough, we are spent and now we can hardly afford to house ourselves!

European settlers.

If it’s about a staffing shortages how does striking not create a more severe staffing shortage? Democrat solutions are funny except they hurt others, in this case the patients.

Ceo is a murderer too

Sure...