Should nurses be able, or allowed to strike?

I believe everyone should have the right to strike, I think it is a part of free speech, unfortunately some companies do take advantage of some people, this world is a very money and time run world, they will run people into the ground for nothing. Safety nets for the sick must always be taken though.

Yes of course all the best urban

I think not.. nurses and doctors are people with great responsibilities and they choose to join this profession they are should be aware of it...it is like saying the national army going on strike during the war... there are thousands of people to get sick or in need of help in the hospital.. nothing is more important than the life of those people...

Yes, nurses should be allowed to strike. It's all very well hospital chiefs saying "there are sick people out there" but that is just an emotional hook to turn people against nurses. I'd rather have a well paid and happy nurse looking after me than someone who is tired and can't pay the bills. Rather than ask why the nurses aren't willing to do their jobs for less, ask why their benefits are being cut.

For me it's up to them if they like to strict why not our country is have freedom of all.

If doctors can do it, and anyone else for that matter, why not nurses? They work hard, and if they are not being paid fairly and no solution to their plight in sight, striking is the obvious option to get the attention of higher-ups. I don't see nurses striking as different from Airline workers striking. It is inconvenient to everyone. Of course the obvious preference will be that there will not be a situation where they don't have to strike, but if they have to, I understand it must be necessary. I don't know the full story, but I am assuming they must have explored all other options. My sister was a nurse before she got married, so I kind of know that nurses don't like to strike. They take their job very seriously. Unless there is no other way, I don't think they would resort to striking.

All legalities aside, it would hardly be fair to expect nurses to take on a job where they had no recourse regardless of working conditions or wages. Going on strike is sometimes the only way to make concerns known. You can't pick and choose who has certain freedoms and who doesn't without getting into real trouble sooner or later.

If the nurses have to get a wage decrese then let everyone including the CEO's and managments take pay cuts too and let the nurses know that for sure . Al;so it may not be just the wages that they are about to strike for but working conditions such as too large a work load such as having to take ldcare of too many patients. If that is the case then make sure that managment works just as hard for their money. Son't let there be more managment than workers. Who knows what other things that are going on with these hard working nurses. It is against the laws to lfire (or lay off during a strike) and then hire only the younger workers ro rleplace them, that is age discrimanation.

Copy and paste much Nurses should walk out and not return until they get what they work for

No I think that when you become a nurse you go into this profession with the idea that you will be taking care of patients needs first and foremost. I was under the impression that they became nurses because they wanted to help people. That's not saying that I don't think they should be treated fairly or paid accordingly to their profession, but nine times out of ten almost nothing is resolved by going on strike. The hospital will simply replace the nurses that strike with other nurses. There are no winners here, but the patients who are not getting the proper care are the only ones that come out on the losing end. Sure these hospitals will replace the old nurses with new nurses, but these new nurses have to get to know these patients and their individual needs. That of course takes some time, time that some of these patients do not have.

Hi Nanajanet, Nurses work for a living like everyone else. Why would it be perfectly okay for any other union worker to strike but not nurses? Nurses are severely underpaid for the work they do. Anywhere I worked, we did not have unions .. probably just for that reason, so they couldn't strike or do anything about their low wages. If they were paid decently, I don't think they would want to strike, in the first place. If it is wrong for a nurse to strike, then it is wrong for coal miners to strike, and it's just as wrong for any other labor force to strike. I know most people don't think of nursing as a job, but as a 'calling'.. calling or job.. or career... they deserve to be paid well for their time. If they are supported by a union, they have a right to strike. I didn't have the right to strike because I was not supported by a union. I feel the only way for employees to not be taken advantage of is to protect their rights and exercise their right to strike, if need be. Otherwise they pay just what the want to pay, and they give raises to those they want to. When many of the nurses at the hospital I worked at found out that new graduates were making more than they were, we really got upset.. but nothing we could do about it.

As a member of the labor union they have the rights to conduct a strike. But since hospitals involved here are non-capitalists, they should have a dialogue with the hospital administration first before they have a strike. Reasons why they are cutting benefits should be explained thouroughly and transparently. Hospitals are businesses too, they are not reducing their budget without a good reason. If their business will be bankrupt all of them will lose their jobs. In the end, they should have an agreement that will have a win-win output.