400 nurses strike at Kapiolani Medical Center
The nurses strike demanded higher pay, no mandatory overtime, and a minimum patient-to-staff ratio to help retain workers.
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The nurses strike demanded higher pay, no mandatory overtime, and a minimum patient-to-staff ratio to help retain workers.
Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children brought in several hundred temporary nurses Sunday to fill nursing jobs after unionized nurses walked off the job and hit the picket line to start a weeklong strike — the first Hawaii Nurses Association strike in about a half-century at the hospital.
The strike comes after months of failed contract negotiations since mid- September, primarily over the union’s demand for staffing ratios that set a maximum number of patients a nurse can care for during a work shift.
Contract negotiations have been ongoing since September. Nurses have been working without a contract since Dec. 1.
Some of the more than 600 nurses at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children are set to walk off the job for a week beginning this Sunday. Kristen Consillio