Do nurses and teachers strike for patients and students—or more money?

[exitseven]

These people make me laugh.

[Chazmatazz269]

There are plenty of protections in place for students and patients, including the teachers and nurses themselves. Unions are in place to protect the workers. A strike is organized by a union when management refuses to negotiate in good faith.
Teachers make diddly squat, so you’re just an *sshole if you’re complaining about them asking for an appropriate raise, or better job conditions.
There’s literally no excuse for opposing more money and better conditions for nurses. The US healthcare industry takes in well over 5 TRILLION dollars a year and continues to grow. Typically, CEOs have annual salaries in the multimillions. So any argument that paying nurses a fair wage and staffing hospitals appropriately is “bad” for patient care and/or costs is pure ignorance. Hospitals are commonly run like they’re going out of business; minimal staff and outdated equipment everywhere. Revenues are only reinvested when equipment breaks down and then they just buy new equipment and spend an inordinate amount of money on a PR campaign to tell the community about their “state of the art” whatevertron. Meanwhile nurses get squat, and patient care is more directly impacted by the skeleton crew staffing hospitals require to protect their profits.
This is the problem with you “capitalism cures all!” idiots. The CEO of a given company typically makes 300-400 times what their average hourly employees make. Compare that to the disparity in the ‘60s and ‘70s when it was roughly 20 times. As hourly employees typically struggle to keep up with inflation, do you really think those board members are working 400 times harder than their employees or 20 times harder than their counterparts from fifty years ago? No, they absolutely are not.
When the price of a Big Mac goes up, you b*tch about minimum wage workers asking for a raise because their wages have stagnated in the face of inflation, instead of b*tching about the MULTIPLE multimillionaires pulling the strings.
Whenever someone proposes sensible solutions to rein in the immense GREED at the center of literally every major industry in the US, you scream “SOCIALISM!!!” like Chicken Little crying about the sky falling. There has ALREADY been a transfer of wealth in this country, from the middle to the top. And the same f*ckers who brought it to you are the ones telling you to watch out for the ones at the bottom who need a little help once in a while.
It’s not too late to turn this ship around, but we can’t do so while people like you still have your head all the way up your own ass. The poor and the working class are NOT the enemy. Every time some fat cat gets you to vote in his or her favor, you vote against yourself. You just don’t know it because they have convinced you that i am the enemy. “Trickle down economics” isn’t just abject failure, it’s pure greed and corruption. And people like you are still selling it as “capitalism” because your overlords told you that’s what capitalism is. Shame on you!

[HighValue]

After working in schools for 16 years, I can tell you that MANY teachers are morally corrupt and frequently try to push a liberal agenda onto the students. The school system often discriminates against White men when it comes to employment and against White and Hispanic students when there is any conflict with Black students, even when the school staff witnessed the events and know the Black students are at fault. The school system often discriminates against boys and treats them unfairly.

[ElenaLena]

All I know is both nurses and teachers are needed regardless..

[exitseven]

Yes, they are important but it is silly to think that theyb are on strike to help the patients. They just want more money which maybe they deserve.

[midnightmoon05]

Money of course!! Who cares about the kids and patients !! 😂

that’s why teachers and nurses are soooooo rich!!
everyone is running to become teachers and nurses? No?

[exitseven]

It is hard to get a teaching job around here. All the nurses in our nursing program get hired before the even graduate.

[BlackFalcon03]

More money. Theyve a right to withdwaw ⁰labor like anyone else

[Chazmatazz269]

Not exactly. Union workers actually do have contracts by which they have to abide. This is not at will employment like “anyone else”. Most unions have rules against wildcat strikes because of the impact on customers and clients. The problem is that too many companies and organizations leverage that. They refuse to negotiate in good faith and then blame the union workers for “hurting” the patients or the children. It’s just plain dirty, but half the country eats it up. “It’s just good business!”

[exitseven]

Teachers have a clause in their contract that they cannot strike. They do anyway. When I worked as a school administrator my boss (the Superintendent) told me that he had a folder in his drawwr of current resumes and if the teachers ever went on strike he would fire them all and he would replace them.

[lightbulb27]

I think money and quality of care.

since the govt forked $ into the medical system under Obomba admin, the inflation is massive. it's so expensive, the wages high and the training for same work declined. nurses are taking more high level jobs.

my general rule... stay out o the hospital. they have a license to kill you, they do, and a lot of those are mistakes.

if you go or wife goes, make sure someone in family there all the time watching over patient.

[OlderAndWiser]

In my area, we adopted an extra 0.5% on our sales tax to "enhance" public education. After three or four years, the only demonstrable change in our public education is that teachers have higher salaries.

[AviatorTom]

When a union strikes, it's always about money, in its various forms: hourly pay, salary.

Teachers and nurses never strike for students and patients.

[DizzyDesii]

Definitely for the money lmao

[moddy_the_mod]

Never for the people they're supposed to be caring for.

[Likes2drive]

More pay and benefits if anything

[Kaneki05]

Money of course but rightfully so

[robocop666]

its all about money.

[LiamS95]

only for much more money!