About 5,000 nurses at Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Youngsters’s Hospital remained on the picket line Tuesday as leaders started the primary day of negotiations within the early morning.
Union leaders and hospital officers have been tight-lipped in regards to the closed-door bargaining, however nurses say they're ready to strike indefinitely till an affordable contract is agreed upon.
On Monday, Stanford Well being Care and Packard Hospital canceled appointments, postponed surgical procedures and despatched chemotherapy sufferers to sister hospitals because the hundreds of nurses walked off the job Monday, forcing a whole bunch of touring nurses to scramble to fulfill affected person demand.
After treating sufferers with no contract because the finish of March, 5,000 nurses lined streets close to Stanford Hospital raucously picketing and urging medical middle officers to ship an settlement forward of negotiations scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Holding indicators that learn “Stanford hates caregivers” and shouting slogans like “disgrace on Stanford” as drivers blared their automotive horns in assist, nurses appeared greater than able to strain Stanford indefinitely till a “affordable” contract is reached.
The strike has been a headache for Stanford and Packard, which have employed greater than 2,000 nurses from throughout the nation to supply affected person care amid the labor battle. Touring nurses have been in coaching for the previous three days off-site in anticipation of Monday’s mass walkout and continued to work Tuesday.
Stanford has signed a 5-day contract with the touring nurses by way of nurse staffing companies HSG & Aya, in response to the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement, the union that represents nurses at Stanford and Packard.
The strike was approved by about 93% of eligible nurses and marks the primary for CRONA in additional than 20 years. A CRONA spokesperson stated the union continues to be on the negotiating desk and it’s very attainable that in the event that they make any motion right now the union will replace the general public this afternoon on its web site.