Due to a nursing shortage, school nurses will work under a new “cluster” model, serving multiple schools. DC Health says it’s a necessary short-term solution.
Organizers decided to go public with the news after reports that hospital management had discovered the union campaign.
Hospital staff are reusing surgical and N95 masks. Some are buying their own respirators to protect themselves.
Local nurses led a protest at the White House Thursday honoring the 88 nurses who have died nationwide from COVID-19, and demanding federal action to protect health care workers.
The demonstration featured a motorcade of vehicles honking and waving signs that read “Trump Is The Virus” and “#GiveUsPPE!”.
As part of a worldwide strike.
approximately 1,700 nurses at Washington Hospital Center, ratified a new contract, putting to bed one of the region’s most heated labor disputes.
WJLA is reporting this morning that a tentative agreement has been reached between Washington Hospital Center and a union representing its nurses, a deal which could bring an end to one of the region’s longest-running labor disputes.
Photo by Downing87 Nurses at the Washington Hospital Center voted Wednesday to hold a one-day strike in early March to protest staffing and wage cuts amidst lagging contract negotiations. The National Nurses United union, which represents the approximately 1,600 nurses at WHC, has been at loggerheads with the hospital over contract issues since last year. Threats of a strike aren’t new to the hospital. Last November, the nurses union threatened another one-day strike on…
Last week, we reported that unionized nurses at Washington Hospital Center had announced that they would strike for 24 hours on November 25. But Ben Fischer with the Washington Business Journal reports this afternoon that the strike has now been called off. According to an email sent to employees last night, hospital administration and National Nurses United — the union representing the nurses — have agreed to new wage rules which will go into effect…
