I am no mathmatician but 1,400 does not equal 15,000.
Good luck to the striking nurses! Hope you and get everything you are asking for and more!
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I am no mathmatician but 1,400 does not equal 15,000
I bet that depends on how advanced and theoretical your math is 🤔
I have a theoretical degree in mathematology.
May be something like 15,000 is the amount participating in the strike, but 1,400 are how many would be on any given shift?
Just a theory, but 1,400 might cover critical needs. IOW, care that cannot be transferred nor delayed.
Assuming each of the 15k striking nurses works three 12hr shifts a week and each of the 1.4k scab nurses work seven 12hr shifts a week then the scabs can only cover ~3,262 12hr shifts. Still a shortage.
Even if all 15k worked 12-hour shifts for just 3-days a week with no OT (15000*12*3), that’s still 540,000 labor-hours. If the 1.4k scrub nurses compensate by working 16-hour shifts 7-days a week, that’s only 156,800 labor-hours. Under impossible conditions, they still wouldn’t even match 1/3rd the original volume.
I didn't mean to imply it wasn't.
I didn't think you were. Just decided to do the math showing that the hospitals "investment" in these scabs means there will definitely be a decline in patient care.
I got the same answer.
Hospitals argued that the demands were too costly
Translation: our shareholders won't do with anything but exorbitant profits, human lives be damned
Pensions? $160,000-200,000/yr? You think your hospital bills were ridiculous now...
Yeah! Because famously, labor cost is what the high US healthcare costs go towards!
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "rich nurses" isn't why your hospital bill is ridiculous.