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Members of SEIU Local 20 held a one-day strike Monday at Roseland Community Hospital.
Most hospital workers strike over staffing levels and quality of care issues, but this strike was purely economic. "People aren't lined up to work at Roseland. And we think by the hospital adjusting the pay rate so that it's comparable to other South Side hospitals, that speaks to better recruitment, better retention and ultimately better patient care," Local 20 President Byron Hobbes told Chicago Public Radio. "We have grown men and women raising children making $7.50 an hour. We have people with 20 to 30 years of experience making $10.35 an hour," Andrew Phillips, a storeroom manager at Roseland and union member told Medill Reports.
For a union with a reputation for devastating entire hospital systems with long-term strikes, Monday's work stoppage was pretty tame. Local 20 members went back to work Tuesday, still without an agreement. They are considering federal mediation or arbitration to settle this contract.
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If they have so much experience, why can't they find
better-paying jobs?
exactly, guest. i'd have a hard time referring to a person as a "grown" man or woman if they can't earn more than minimum wage on their own merits.
You guys are both right: working is only about making money, it has nothing to do with your connection to a community or your commitment to serve. Where do they get off negotiating with a hospital for better pay and recognition of the work that they do? They should all just walk off the job and find something better paying if they don't like it.
Yes, Kevin, they should. That's how things work. And spare me the crap about community--I doubt that all of it. Some of it has to do with people too lazy to find better jobs.
And how many of these jobs actually have constant interaction with the vague and mysterious "community"?
Give me a break.