Quit Your Job and We will Arrest You
This story is repulsive in the extreme. Its rank sort of injustice, bordering on slavery.
The employer seems to think that if If you can’t get labor at the cost (money or social here) and you can’t get conscripts or slaves (neither of which make good nurses) than you use force to make your nurses to work under your terms.
well sorry folks, but no. In a free country you negotiate a settlement with unhappy workers not lock them in jail, Soviet style. They aren’t chattel and have every right to quit if they are unhappy.
Before you ask what about the patients, the remember New York State boards already cleared them of wrong doing. Twice.
This is vexatious and political and attempt to scare the rest of the nurses in line. I believe the nurses when they contend
they are facing prosecution because influential Democratic officials — Sen. Charles Schumer and Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota — took interest in the case at the behest of an attorney for Sentosa Health Care, which operates Avalon Gardens.
This is also a fine way to discourage people from entering the nursing field at all and a great way to exacerbate a labor shortage to boot
There is a global demand for nurses and if we want to have enough for our aging population we will have to
#1 give nurses real respect
#2 pay them plenty
#3 ease of the burdens of the work conditions
#4 stop abusing our guest workers
If we don’t the supply will dry up sooner than later.
Once the population of the Philippines stabilizes one of the main sources of cheap nurses will be gone. We won’t have a choice anymore, pay up or do without.
If we act like a fascist abusive hell hole what labor remains will go elsewhere.
as for a domestic fix — forget it
As a nurse friend of mine told me years ago
I make more money as a diner waitress than I did as a Nurse (I think she was an LVN) and I have better work conditions.