DiprivanLover,
We appreciate your participation and I understand you feel strongly about your opinion, however I'd like to ask that you please be professional in your discussions and refrain from personal attacks when making your points.
Calling someone a whore will not be tolerated on this forum. We are all professional adults here and it is expected that we all behave accordingly.
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I realize that the whole union vs. strike thing can get out of hand quite fast, but let's please try to remain civil.
I can see both sides of the argument and honestly it's my opinion that Nurses are in a very unique and unfortunate circumstance regarding striking to better their working conditions.
Every accountant in the world could stay home from work tomorrow and we'd get along just fine. Every airline pilot, every school teacher, every lawyer, etc.
Things might be bad, but we'd move on.
If every nurse stayed home tomorrow to go on strike then people would be dieing like crazy! Our population would decrease in a hurry.
I don't believe nurses can go on strike without strike nurses. Would you not feel at all responsible for the patients you were just taking care of who are in the hospital with no one to care for them? If you don't have compassion for them, then I would question your motive for being a nurse in the first place.
I don't think strike nurses hurt the nurses on strike as much as you'd like to believe. It's a temporary solution and an expensive one.
Don't get me wrong, strike nursing is not something I would do, but I can't blame those who do it. I certainly wouldn't call them educated whores. SOMEONE has to take care of those patients.
I think nurses are put in an unfair position. You can't go on strike without someone there to take care of the patients and management knows that, and they use it against the nurses. If nurses go on strike, then YOU KNOW it must be bad.
It's a tough topic to tackle, and I've already said way more than I wanted to so I'll stop. I'll just finish by saying that I can definitely see both sides of it, and if you can't see the other side's viewpoint at all, then you are being closed minded and biased, or you aren't looking very hard.