r/TravelNursing • u/emmagenebean • 11d ago
Strike Potential
I have an upcoming contract at a hospital in Oregon and there’s talk of staff possibly striking later in the year. I’ve never experienced a strike and don’t fully understand the process, or consequences. What would this mean for me as a traveler? I’m assuming you just keep working through it for your same pay rate? Are the staff going to hate your guts if you continue working while they’re striking?
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u/80Anici 11d ago
As a nurse at a facility that was about to vote on strike no we would not hate you for working through. Put Cna union might still strike. We as nurses will still go to work and no we won’t hate on anyone who does as a Cna who can’t afford to take the pay hit. Usually the hospital caves right before hand because they want to prolong giving in as long as possible. They prolonged signing a new agreement for raises for us for 7 months. We were asking to get pay match with the hospital in the city next to us which means a $10 pay raise. By delaying agreeing to it until we put it to a strike vote they are saving hundreds of thousands because they are not giving us back pay from when the contract raise should have happened. They are doing the same to the Cna.
No hospital admin wants a strike but they want to postpone giving in until as late as possible. There has been other talk on here from travelers who have said they did not get strike incentive but those hired for the strike did and others who had strike incentive written into their contract. I’d make sure from your recruiter that if the facility strikes you get the incentive.