Strike Pits Corporate-Style Management Against Patient Care
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Strike Pits Corporate-Style Management Against Patient Care
The nurses’ strike against Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick is in its third month. I visited the picket line yesterday with my journalism class, who got a chance to talk to the striking nurses for their first major story.
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I talked to several nurses and it is clear they are in this to win enforceable staffing levels, which are important to protect both the nurses and the patients. Management has offered what the nurses call a loophole-ridden alternative designed to allow management to evade responsibility.
I recorded these impressions yesterday as I left the picket.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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