@@smooshstar health care in hawaii is the highest in the nation and if they get raises, soon alot of people cannot go to the hospital. Unions will raise the inflation in hawaii
@@Star-u3t1l fake news. Thousands of traveling nurses that want to work in Hawaii for a few years. Do you just make things up and believe your own lies. Plus Hawaii has a pipeline to nurses from the Philippines.
Well currently, if you have 2 pregnant moms to take care of, and they’re short staffed, they can make you take on a third pregnant mom in labor. That makes it very dangerous since it reduces the time the nurse can spend and check each patient. They can also demand the nurse to stay overtime, after the shift ends. The nurses union is trying to set safe mandated ratios and limit forced overtime.
People are the REAL DUMMIES if they support the NURSES who ear SIX FIGURES. Hospital give the NURSES a raise. Hospital just gonna RAISE PEOPLE's FEE's. The people are the LOSERS.
No different than a relationship. Organizational behavior that SIGNALS and communicates the DISPOSABILITY OF YOUR CARE AND WORK after a long-term relationship. No different than when a bf or gf says you are worth breaking up with. Take this as a sign of organizational behavior that reflects what they think about you pushing back on the terms of the relationship.
@JohnScalla , Kapiolani Hospital 's budget is in the red! They don't have enough money to pay the nurses what they want and hire additional nurses. The hospital offered them a salary that only the top 10 percent of Hawaii's population is making, and that still isn't enough. I'm have to side with Kapiolani Hospital on this one!
@@roythousand13 Reduce executive pay. Sounds like they mismanaged anyway. Not worth their pay anyway. Take that $1m or so savings and use it to bring more nurses on the floor at once.
@@roythousand13 CEO makes $3 million. Pay cut should be an option. Instead of actually negotiating they bring in travel nurses, pay for their hotels and flights. All of which could have just gone to pay for more nurses on the line. Corporate greed needs to not be normalized.
Yeah let them walk out of their jobs, not happy then just leave. Where else can they make more money . 130,000 to 160,000 😮 unbelievable wages already are you kidding me
We welcome nurses who embody the caring spirit of Ohana and bring their valuable experience to the Bay Area. With the ongoing nursing shortage, we are always recruiting from institutions like Stanford, Kaiser, Sutter, and various private, county, and state facilities. These organizations provide competitive pay and excellent benefits, making this an incredible opportunity for dedicated healthcare professionals like these nurses.
Major RN shortage on mainland but mostly it’s a non union position. Many hospital RNs across the mainland are not in unions. Some are but most aren’t. And many BSN salary aren’t anywhere near $160k depend on the state. Good luck to these RNs, hope you can reach an agreement that is fair.
The money is not the issue. They are fighting for safer working conditions, no blame/retaliation culture, safe RN/patient ratios, no forced OT, training for newly graduated nurses for successful transition…Nurses in California are making more than their counterparts in Hawaii. Yet our cost of living is just as much in comparison. It is easy to say the pay is good and they can work OT to make more, but ask any nurse if they would like to work OT and see what response you’d get😅
@@elainesalvador8011 It is the same narrative as teachers. 12 hour shifts are insane. So if you want to talk working conditions, do you know some prison guards have 72 hour shifts? just saying
@@KamIIImanIt’s harder to become a nurse than it is to become a security guard LOL pretty sure you’d want the people who takes care of your child in the hospital to be well taken care of as well
@@matthewsteiner7955 Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
@@matthewsteiner7955 Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
@@matthewsteiner7955 Psssh 🤣😂, this is Hawai’i, EVERYONE picks up extra shifts, works multiple jobs, works 50+ hour and MORE altogether… for WAY LESS, just to survive. Those nurses are about to learn that now that they’re giving up their nursing jobs. Good luck with that.
fair and generous offer, according to whom? without good nurses hospital will go down hill and their patients will suffer. hospitals that no care about employees no care about their patients.
Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
Do you realize that’s the same salary as what the governor, lieutenant governor and ATTORNEY GENERAL make? That’s MORE than what TWO state legislatures make combined!! The hospital offered them a very generous package, but they are being greedy!! They keep striking for more and more money every year. Lock em out!
Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
That is for 12 hour shifts, which the hospital made them switch to many years ago. And nobody makes 160/year. The get that number from what an imaginary nurse qualifying for every differential cold make 3 years from now. The fact is RNs in Hawaii are the poorest paid in the nation. A nurse can go anywhere in the mainland and earn enough to live at a higher standard of living than they can in Hawaii. And people wonder why hosptals here have retention and recruitment problems. Anyone wanying a better life for their family relocates to the mainland
@@SherrieSchubert-fm4ki why? Why are you so entitled? You were never a CEO. How would you know what they do? seems like you were a disgruntled employee.
@@tysons8759 Who are you? Why do you think that I cannot see that a CEO makes far too much money compared to Doctors and Nurses? In America we have a corporate greed problem that permeates many industries. Who are you to tell me that I cannot call out corporate greed? Are you bot?
I worked there for 15 yrs, not as a nurse but in dietary, the nurses see things and go through trauma. Seeing a kid and taking care of him or her for months then the kid dies in front of them, its really heart breaking. Even I broke down, because I would see the kids in pain, but couldn't do nothing. So sad to work with very sick kids, 2yrs old to teens.
Yeah let them walk out of their jobs, not happy then just leave. Where else can they make more money . 130,000 to 160,000 😮 unbelievable wages already are you kidding me
I have a hard time feeling bad for them, I have friends who are nurses making so much money that they have to take comp time to stay out of higher tax bracket’s.
3 days that’s all you hear huh. That’s 12-13hr shifts. So you’re still working 40hrs or close to it. They went to school , got big student loan, they deserve the pay. Jealousy of people are insane who didn’t decide to go to school and better themselves.
The governor $165,000 Lieutenant Governor $162,000 ATTORNEY GENERAL $162,000 State legislatures $74,000 This is for a 5 day work week. *These nurses are out of their mind!! Nurses get paid half this in the states!!* And our nurses are so rude and snobby now days, no bedside manner at all !!
@@chuckroberts3873 also they must have a strong union leader representative that will represent the employees as a whole to hear out the issues that’s happening in the working place as well in each department they are working.
Nobody at McDonald’s is helping your baby stay alive. Nobody at McDonald’s is putting their license on the line to take care of your mom. Nobody at McDonald’s is helping your brother breathe and eat through a tube. Those nurses aren’t asking for more money, they’re asking for the hospital to set a safe limit of how many patients they can be assigned, so they don’t put your family at risk.
Yeah, you want to do it right? Go work at a place that can throw as many patients on you as they need, and put your license at risk and the patients life on the line. This isn’t about the pay, it’s about mandating a safe nurse to patient ratio.
Not your best work HNN. After the COO makes a statement that these nurses make between $130K to $160K per year for 3 days a week, no questioning to union workers, what they are seeking in these talks. Is it better safety for staff, better safety for patience's, better retirement benefits, what is the hold out??? This is one sided corporate reporting.
Just hope that they do not let ego and pride stand in their way. The woman in the interview seems angry and probably very frustrated. It also seems like the salary is fair. The nurses there are amazing and do wonders for so many children. I hope they come to an agreement without the lockout. That would likely end bad for the nurses, the hospital and the children in the hospital.
They are not in agreement for Hawaii and its people. CEO's have no clue. If you think Hawaii Nurses make top dollars then think again. In the corporate world; everyone is replaceable .
Cost of living effects versus safe number work practices in the work place. A walk out is worth the real world precedent on real life resources and interests that conflict and compete. This is worth watching the outcomes playout. 🍿🍿🍿Power, respect, and workplace dignity. Safe numbers means having some say and power over how many patients are assigned to a nurse. A high salary for 3 days a week under conditions of closely monitoring more patients than you can SAFELY handle is humanitarianly ....irresponsible and unrealistic principally. Please continue follow up to continue to further understand perspectives of healthcare and a caregiver from a humanistic and not purely a capitalistic perspective.
Sure, but what does an insurance company executive make? And they won't be walking you to the bathroom and wiping your butt at 3 AM. It's not the bedside nurses sucking up the money in the healthcare system.
@@jaybleu6169 believe me they are a part of the problem and highly overpaid to wipe butt. If you cannot see that, you're part of the problem. Don't compare to distract from the real issue. You're gonna see 👀 health care inflation and you don't even care.
@John c. Why do you think the ratio of nurses to patients are the way they are, it's because the unions and nurses higher pay, the hospital is a business and they have to balance the books to stay in business. The union and nurses put the nurses in the position they're by being greedy . How stupid can they be backing up the union that's screwing them essentially
@@jaybleu6169 are you kidding me, our health care and insurance costs are already skyrocketed because of the nurses and union Highest paid in hawaii and the nation. They are way too greedy, that's why there's a shortage of staff to balance the hospitals books. They created their own predicament. Keep on listening to the nurses association and union and it'll get worse for you. Quit if they don't like their jobs, get plenty filipino nurses from the Philippines willing to work less than a third of your pay The hospital is a business and cannot meet your outrageous demands, how silly 😜 does if sound to compare your wages with Other states. There is different hardship criteria regarding where they live, for example, crime, pollution, weather etc. Get real
@@kk4649k Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
reading all these comments and not too many are really for the nurses. This added strike day is falling on their faces and now they have a lockout over their heads. Who will show up? I haven't read anything in the comments from any nurses. Can we hear from them. Let us know your challenges and what else is behind all this? I am really curious...Again IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY... LEAVE... really simple. $$$ will not change anything.
The challenge is this: example, a nurse should be taking care of 1-2 mom and babies. That gives them 7.5 minutes to 15 minutes to check the vital signs, do an assessment, and push medications for each patient. The hospital can assign a 3rd pregnant mom in labor and make the nurse stretch. That cuts the time to 5 minutes or less to do their job. More things get missed. Sometimes, the hospital might even assign more if they’re short. This is really unsafe because patients conditions can change at any moment, but the nurse is still responsible for all their patients. What the nurses want is a safe limit to how many patients they can be assigned.
@@supreme5998 I understand and feel for the nurses in this working environment. But will more $$$ make this any better? It seems with this reasoning that you mentioned is that Kapiolani may need to hire more nurses that are in short supply right now. Pay will not fix this challenge. They will still be responsible for more patients then they can handle safely and to provide the care needed. Thank you for this example!!! This is something that really needs to be fixed. I wonder if other hospitals go through this same situation? They should be allowed a safe limit on how many patients they can care for and still keep the patients safe. But more pay will not fix this anyway you look at it. They will be seeking more $$$$ every year down the road. It will not end.
You guys know why they will lock them out because they will just hire temp. from the mainland, give them room and board , pay them really good, take a lost just to hate on our local nurses.
Too all those who complain about nurse pay ,you will understand the work they do l had 3 major surgeries in the last 12 years and let me tell you they work their butts off and I wouldn’t be telling you this today if it weren’t for them
They work hard for 3 days a week! They get 4 days off a week. I don't even know any other job that allows for so many days off and still pays six figures. The nurses are greedy!
A lot of travel nurses. They get paid BIG BUCKS and free housing at some offices / hospitals. There are a lot of nurses that would love to move to Hawaii to work 3 12 hour shifts and have four days off. Shoot that is better than our firemen get I believe. Crazy. These men and women put their lives on the line everyday. Do they even make 100K a year? I wonder.
The hospital says how much money they will pay, but doesn't mention what the work day is like. My GUESS...is that nurses would like decent pay...with decent work rules. A lot of money is worthless if you drop dead from high paid slave labor and can't spend it.
I work at a hospital in Boston. We just went through this a week and a half ago. We vote to ratify next week. Hospital management doesn’t want to talk or listen. Stay strong and if they lock you out…good lick to them care for patients. Shows who they really care about and it’s not the patients or employees
Yeah, except you don’t have to work at a job that puts your license at risk every day, and people’s life in your hands. The whole point of the strike is to keep the ratios mandated at a safe level. Right now if they are short on staff they can just pass on extra patients to nurses, which puts the life of the patients at risk and the license of the nurse at risk.
@supreme5998 Median whole Household income in Hawaii is 120k. HPD salary is 60k-70k, and they too save lives while putting their lives on the line every day. I guess I don't get it... that's what I thought the single individual income of 130k to 160k is for, so nurses are compensated fairly for the challenges you mention in the work environment. IDK..hmmm
@@justanotherfather2987 yeah. they're not fighting about the pay. They're striking to mandate a safe ratio of patients that the hospital can force nurses to cover. The safe ratio is to protect the patients and prevent nurses from stretching thin beyond their capabilities and risking their license.
@@supreme5998 the nurses are being unreasonable to Kapiolani. They are asking for more money, for less work while demanding for more staff. Maybe work a regular work week, reduce this pay increase then ask for more staff. These nurses are acting like petulant children throwing tantrums until they get what they want.
@@justanotherfather2987 until that's you or your family in there, coding, dying and nobody can get in there because the nurse is working on the other 7 patients. Then you'll be mad about why the hospital allowed such an off nurse to patient ratio...
Please ! I pray they can come to a conclusion that surpasses money? The babies and children who are sick and can’t care for themselves are the ones that will suffer? And it’s not from only one side but both? Sad that it has to be all about money which is the only target point I see? Integrity and righteousness is how we should all walk!!
They are making $46-68 an hour. What they want is not more money. What they want is a mandated ratio limit of how many patients they can be assigned. Right now the hospital can assign as many patients as they want to each nurse. When you throw more patient load on a nurse, the lower the time the nurse has with each patient and puts the patients life at risk. The nurse is at risk of losing their license at any moment too. It’s not about the money. It’s about staffing.
@@supreme5998 thank you for sharing. What is the solution? What is the limit that nurses want? What is the average nurses handling patients now? What is the independent expert say about the reasonable limit?
@@powercomm Well there's a lot of nuances. It really depends on the acuity of the patients. For example, if it's labor and delivery, the safe ratio is 1:1 if it's intensive care or high risk, and 1:2 if it's not. Right now the nurses can be asked to cover 3 or 4 if the patients are not at high risk, but the patient's conditions could change during the 12-hour shifts. There are no current ratio rules, so the hospital can assign as many patients as they want right now. If we go by independent experts, the layout is in California (pretty much the only state with ratios) the ratio is 1:1 for high acuity and 1:2 for normal patients.
I'm hoping the union and these nurses are also increasing patient fees. I'm not to clear on all these claims affecting the nurses. How much do other nurses get paid in Hawaii? I'm a ride share driver and all I know is I pick up and drop off a lot of travel nurses. So we don't have enough nurses in Hawaii, why is this? Is it pay? Do other states have this same challenge? I mean 130 to 160K sounds pretty good for a three day twelve hour shift. If they go longer then twelve then they should be paid for it like any other hourly worker gets paid. Are they hourly? As we all know salary means free overtime for owners of businesses though most give it back to the employee some how. If not LEAVE and work at another hospital. Not happy where you work? LEAVE Not happy with your working conditions? LEAVE. I'm sorry but maybe the nurses got to let the public know more about these circumstances cause I haven't see anything and it looks like just plain old GREED to me. Maybe not the nurses they are being worked by the union. But we all know that unions are greedy and will do everything they can do get more $$$. Need more information. But I've always left a place I wasn't happy with. Just cause you have a union behind you and a whole bunch of co-workers behind you don't mean to do what you nurses and the union are doing. News folks; when reporting on this kine of story please include what other nurses on the island make on average and what are the claims? So if they get locked out what happens then? Kapiolani shut down? i mean the hospital just got remodeled and I'm sure the environment is a lot better. All I know is there must be a ton of jobs out there for nurses if we as a state are flying in these travel nurses and paying them some really huge $$$ to work here. Then they leave just shaking their heads. Not happy - LEAVE get plenty of jobs. Every time a company gives in to the unions the public pays. Okay we got high prices now. What happens after they get all these increases? FEES GO UP AND WE PAY... Come on people can Hawaii residents keep paying crazy $$$ for everything we buy and use. People could be dying cause it's so expensive to go to the hospital. For profit companies will always past any expense to the customer. As customers we got to put our foot down. We as customers are being abused also. Throughout my work experience I've found that unions are more detrimental to the workers then any type of help. Can they really save your job? Hmmmm, LOCK OUT means no job. How many will show up? Will all 600 show up. What are they getting paid now? thinking with my fingers just my sharing my thoughts on this.
@@durshi01 tl:dr, but if you think 3, 12 hour days as a bedside RN is an easy life, go ahead and go to nursing school, get your license, and give it a try.
@@jaybleu6169 I have no desire to do that. Reading some examples to the challenge our nurses are facing is that we have don't have enough nurses to care for the amount of patients that go to the hospital. Did I ever mention that their job was easy? NO. Never did mention that. But from the examples given it isn't really about pay. It is the amount of staff on hand to provide adequate care to the patients in Kapiolani. But also on the other hand I've gone into the hospitals and witnessed what the nurses are doing and the examples given isn't what I see. I see them talking, laughing, eating and not caring for their patients. Granted it wasn't in Kapiolani Hospital but another one. Are the situations so different in our hospitals? From the examples given so far. Pay will not fix this challenge. More nurses will. What could also be done? Outside of more $$$.
Honestly, the fact that medical centers aren't government-operated in this country is absurd; hospitals should be run like the best parts of the military, not like Amazon warehouses. If anything, there should be national drafts for various professions to prevent burnout for essential employees; if there was an overabundance of RNs, people could fill in for one or two days of work across a variety of jobs instead of performing the same, monotonous 72/120-hour work shifts walking around hospitals, drinking so much coffee they're sweating caffeine, applying the exact medication, watching their patients slowly die, and welcoming new patients who've been purposefully ruining their own health and/or got sent to the hospital for doing really, really stupid things. Most of the commentators on this webpage wouldn't give the time of day, let alone their full professional attention and personal care to every idiot who walked into their place of business. I hope Hawaii Pacific Health is ready to move all of their patients to other facilities once their nursing staff is removed. 2/3 of the national Nurse workforce experiences burnout, the 2nd highest profession in the country.
I no longer work at the bedside, but when I did, my insurance agent was once trying to pitch me disability insurance. When I told him I was a nurse he said "Nevermind... you won't be able to afford it." No kidding... the injury rate for bedside nurses is so high, disability insurance is so expensive your agent won't even waste his time trying to sell it to you.
Honestly... What's wrong with you? You pay taxes and get basically nothing for them. In other countries, the people pay taxes and get services in return... like healthcare. But you call that "communism". Why do you prefer a system where you pay, and pay, and pay, but get nothing?
If the job is too hard they should quit. It pays well and there are people out there willing to work hard. Just look at these nurses nowadays. Bunch of lazy slobs.
That health care company should be fined for however long they keep mistreating their employees. SHAME ON KAPIOLANI for punishing hrdworking nurses. $160k is barely enough to live here, and nursing is THE HARDEST hospital job.
??? $160k is PLENTY and MORE THAN ENOUGH to live on O'ahu. What kine lifestyle you get? You drive one Lexus and you live Diamond Head? Mililani Mauka? Black Point? Kahala? Ferrragamo shoes every few months? Travel the world twice a year? Yeah I GUESS $160k not enough for the way YOU live. Esp when you get FOUR DAYS OFF to go holo holo, yeah? Shut your damn mouth. Get people struggling in Hawaii but you don't know them because you live gated community. "$160k barely enough" my ass.
What about the people who work make less then $160k living in Hawaii? You talk about livable wages at $160k when people like me make less then $60 and really trying to live in Hawaii! I would love to have that $160k salary or even half of that if good for me!
Lock out will bring the hospital to its knees! The people struggle with health care as is. This would be the wrong move! You'll pay traveling nurses double what you pay now. Funnel those funds to the nurses! They can move to the mainland for higher pay!
$160,000 is literally the same salary as the ATTORNEY GENERAL, the governor and lieutenant governor make… it’s MORE than TWO state legislatures pay COMBINED! STFU.
Another point, the COO states these nurses are the "best paid Nurses in the state" does not impress. I would like to know where Hawaii nurses rank in the US, since Hawaii is the most expensive state in the US to live, nurses pay should be comparative to the cost of living of a state. Note to Kapiolani Medical, they have planes in Hawaii making it very easy for skilled nurses to go elsewhere.
Threats and retaliatory actions NOT good faith IMO. Nurses despite being the backbone of DIRECT patient care, continue to be some of the lowest pay in a state with one the highest cost of living in the nation. Shame on the medical center for thinking threats are good faith bargaining 🤷🏼♀️
No worry we pay athletes 100s of millions of dollars for entertainment while firefighters nurses and Doctors save lives. It’s a world problem all over.
@@georgecurtis6463 best paid slaves ever. Only 3 days of slavery with full benefits and a salary that surpasses 90% of the state. Pretty sure most would happy with that arrangement.
Nurses will leave the state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Las Vegas will take them. Nurses are in shortage around the country.
@@Star-u3t1l cheaper to fly to the mainland for health care, I say good riddance. I'll call them on their bluff and arrogance
@@Star-u3t1l let them go, fly to the mainland is cheaper and better service
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The hospitals should outsource already.
@@smooshstar health care in hawaii is the highest in the nation and if they get raises, soon alot of people cannot go to the hospital. Unions will raise the inflation in hawaii
@@Star-u3t1l fake news. Thousands of traveling nurses that want to work in Hawaii for a few years. Do you just make things up and believe your own lies. Plus Hawaii has a pipeline to nurses from the Philippines.
Babies and mommies need you all to come back please.
Didn't hear one nurse say exactly what was wrong with their working conditions or salary?
Patient to nurse ratio is the biggest thing...
Well currently, if you have 2 pregnant moms to take care of, and they’re short staffed, they can make you take on a third pregnant mom in labor. That makes it very dangerous since it reduces the time the nurse can spend and check each patient. They can also demand the nurse to stay overtime, after the shift ends. The nurses union is trying to set safe mandated ratios and limit forced overtime.
You haven't been listening. They say it over and over. Unsafe staffing levels. Too few nurses to safely care for the patients there
that will backfire
Hospital is full of greed
they're offering 133-166k to these nurses. how is the hospital full of greed exactly?
People are the REAL DUMMIES if they support the NURSES who ear SIX FIGURES. Hospital give the NURSES a raise. Hospital just gonna RAISE PEOPLE's FEE's. The people are the LOSERS.
Nurse are not asking for HIGHER PAY. They are asking for SAFER working conditions.. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. God. Less America and the world.
But... They are asking for higher pay.
Gidget shame on the legacy you have left for you and your family.
No different than a relationship. Organizational behavior that SIGNALS and communicates the DISPOSABILITY OF YOUR CARE AND WORK after a long-term relationship. No different than when a bf or gf says you are worth breaking up with. Take this as a sign of organizational behavior that reflects what they think about you pushing back on the terms of the relationship.
$168k a year for three days of work a week! Bruh, these nurses are hella greedy!
It’s about nurse to patient ratio and draconian scheduling practices. It’s about patient safety. Not at all about salary.
@JohnScalla , Kapiolani Hospital 's budget is in the red! They don't have enough money to pay the nurses what they want and hire additional nurses. The hospital offered them a salary that only the top 10 percent of Hawaii's population is making, and that still isn't enough. I'm have to side with Kapiolani Hospital on this one!
@@roythousand13 Reduce executive pay. Sounds like they mismanaged anyway. Not worth their pay anyway. Take that $1m or so savings and use it to bring more nurses on the floor at once.
@JohnScalla , the mind of an employee!
@@roythousand13 CEO makes $3 million. Pay cut should be an option. Instead of actually negotiating they bring in travel nurses, pay for their hotels and flights. All of which could have just gone to pay for more nurses on the line. Corporate greed needs to not be normalized.
LET'M WALK.
Yeah let them walk out of their jobs, not happy then just leave. Where else can they make more money . 130,000 to 160,000 😮 unbelievable wages already are you kidding me
@@stanmuneoka8117only 3 days a week work too
@@stanmuneoka8117typical brown nose employee comment. Keep bending your sss for management.
@@stanmuneoka8117
And they get paid that for working only 3 days a week.
Nurses be all dakine too! Rude sometimes too
Just make them work 8 hrs and hire more and no pay raises.
@@kawikadee9670 that’s to easy😂
We welcome nurses who embody the caring spirit of Ohana and bring their valuable experience to the Bay Area. With the ongoing nursing shortage, we are always recruiting from institutions like Stanford, Kaiser, Sutter, and various private, county, and state facilities. These organizations provide competitive pay and excellent benefits, making this an incredible opportunity for dedicated healthcare professionals like these nurses.
Major RN shortage on mainland but mostly it’s a non union position. Many hospital RNs across the mainland are not in unions. Some are but most aren’t. And many BSN salary aren’t anywhere near $160k depend on the state. Good luck to these RNs, hope you can reach an agreement that is fair.
Average pay is $57 an hour. I get that that 12 hour shifts are hard but they can work overtime and make over 6 figures easy. The money is excellent
The money is not the issue. They are fighting for safer working conditions, no blame/retaliation culture, safe RN/patient ratios, no forced OT, training for newly graduated nurses for successful transition…Nurses in California are making more than their counterparts in Hawaii. Yet our cost of living is just as much in comparison. It is easy to say the pay is good and they can work OT to make more, but ask any nurse if they would like to work OT and see what response you’d get😅
@@elainesalvador8011 It is the same narrative as teachers. 12 hour shifts are insane. So if you want to talk working conditions, do you know some prison guards have 72 hour shifts? just saying
@@KamIIImanIt’s harder to become a nurse than it is to become a security guard LOL pretty sure you’d want the people who takes care of your child in the hospital to be well taken care of as well
@@KamIIIman Prison guards do absolutely nothing compared to nurses 😂
@@sasquatch8268 Were you a prison guard before you become an honorable nurse?
Nurses earn PLENTY! They are NOT suffering.
It’s not about the pay. It’s about how many patients the hospital can force them to take on, which right now is as much as they want.
They are fighting for 160,000 a year - 3 day work week
I'm changing careers.
Then go change!
12+ hour shifts... And many pick up extra shifts to cover staff shortages. Easily 50+ hour weeks. Still want to change careers?
@@matthewsteiner7955
Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
@@matthewsteiner7955
Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
@@matthewsteiner7955
Psssh 🤣😂, this is Hawai’i, EVERYONE picks up extra shifts, works multiple jobs, works 50+ hour and MORE altogether… for WAY LESS, just to survive.
Those nurses are about to learn that now that they’re giving up their nursing jobs. Good luck with that.
fair and generous offer, according to whom? without good nurses hospital will go down hill and their patients will suffer. hospitals that no care about employees no care about their patients.
133k-160k and a three day work week? Fair and generous by anyone’s measure, they’re losing credibility by being so greedy.
Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
Do you realize that’s the same salary as what the governor, lieutenant governor and ATTORNEY GENERAL make? That’s MORE than what TWO state legislatures make combined!!
The hospital offered them a very generous package, but they are being greedy!! They keep striking for more and more money every year.
Lock em out!
Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
3 days a week but 12 hour shifts... And it's not about the money...
That is for 12 hour shifts, which the hospital made them switch to many years ago. And nobody makes 160/year. The get that number from what an imaginary nurse qualifying for every differential cold make 3 years from now. The fact is RNs in Hawaii are the poorest paid in the nation. A nurse can go anywhere in the mainland and earn enough to live at a higher standard of living than they can in Hawaii. And people wonder why hosptals here have retention and recruitment problems. Anyone wanying a better life for their family relocates to the mainland
How much is the CEO making? Too much money for CEO's!!!
113k for a nurse UK free healthcare makes 56k
@@SherrieSchubert-fm4ki don’t count other people money just because you don’t have any.
@@tysons8759 The wage disparity in the USA is the problem......after forty years in Nursing I am allowed an opinion!
@@SherrieSchubert-fm4ki why? Why are you so entitled? You were never a CEO. How would you know what they do? seems like you were a disgruntled employee.
@@tysons8759 Who are you? Why do you think that I cannot see that a CEO makes far too much money compared to Doctors and Nurses? In America we have a corporate greed problem that permeates many industries. Who are you to tell me that I cannot call out corporate greed? Are you bot?
Greedyyyyyyy !!!!!!
Whaaaat? Sheeesh. Apparently, the $ is not enough. Has their salary kept up w/increasing cost of living?
I worked there for 15 yrs, not as a nurse but in dietary, the nurses see things and go through trauma. Seeing a kid and taking care of him or her for months then the kid dies in front of them, its really heart breaking. Even I broke down, because I would see the kids in pain, but couldn't do nothing. So sad to work with very sick kids, 2yrs old to teens.
Yeah let them walk out of their jobs, not happy then just leave. Where else can they make more money . 130,000 to 160,000 😮 unbelievable wages already are you kidding me
Nurses are the backbone and workhorses of any hospital! They need to teach them a lesson! WALK OUT! Could you show them your value?
And could show how greedy they are and the hospital will hire all non union.
So what are the locals doing? Havent seen one yet in the video?
That's what I like-- make a Decision -- I just wish the White House would follow SUIT!!!
Ronald Reagan fired all of them.
@@EEE-iw3fk That was PATCO ATC, the industry paid the price later on down the road.
@@EEE-iw3fk In 1986, Reagan granted amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants in the US . . .
Cut the pay down and hire more nurses which solves both the overtime issue and nurse ratios if that is what they are complaining about.
watch the nurses leave the state for better pay and better bosses - management.
I have a hard time feeling bad for them, I have friends who are nurses making so much money that they have to take comp time to stay out of higher tax bracket’s.
Hoping for the best outcome for all.
iim confused. why doesnt the hospital just hire?
Sad, who else makes that kinda money for 3 days work, oh well
That is 3 12 + hour shifts. It is no freebie.
@@PerfectoKiss Exactly, and you have many lives that you are responsible for, some at the brink of death...
Please educate yourself on the responsibility of RNs. The education required and working conditions before making such a statement!
3 days that’s all you hear huh. That’s 12-13hr shifts. So you’re still working 40hrs or close to it.
They went to school , got big student loan, they deserve the pay. Jealousy of people are insane who didn’t decide to go to school and better themselves.
Please dont compare nurses to bruddahs in high vis shirts mowing the freeway.
The governor $165,000
Lieutenant Governor $162,000
ATTORNEY GENERAL $162,000
State legislatures $74,000
This is for a 5 day work week.
*These nurses are out of their mind!! Nurses get paid half this in the states!!*
And our nurses are so rude and snobby now days, no bedside manner at all !!
Homeless $$$ if they want to work?
Keep listening to your union, and you won't have jobs. It works both ways.
Depends what union they have. Some unions employees job is protected. Not all union is the same.
@@chuckroberts3873 also they must have a strong union leader representative that will represent the employees as a whole to hear out the issues that’s happening in the working place as well in each department they are working.
There getting greedy
*They
Let em work Mcdonalds.
Is that what your pops told your mom?
McDonald's of Las Vegas.
McDonald's has harder work with 10X less pay.
@@toonses4300bs. wipe the shame off your mouth before you say something.
Nobody at McDonald’s is helping your baby stay alive. Nobody at McDonald’s is putting their license on the line to take care of your mom. Nobody at McDonald’s is helping your brother breathe and eat through a tube. Those nurses aren’t asking for more money, they’re asking for the hospital to set a safe limit of how many patients they can be assigned, so they don’t put your family at risk.
These nurses are asking for too much. They should be locked out.
Go for broke!
This is Heartbreaking 💔 and what did the company do with all the donations statewide from so many retailers and supermarkets?
How many locals would love to make an avg of $160k/yr and work 3 days a week? And that's not good enough for these union members. 🤔
Hey it’s a specialty job. You go to school for it. They’re the ones willing to take care of our families when we do not know how.
There's a demand, go to nursing school, anyone can do it if they want...
It’s about nurse to patient ratio and draconian scheduling practices. It’s about patient safety. Not at all about salary.
Yeah, you want to do it right? Go work at a place that can throw as many patients on you as they need, and put your license at risk and the patients life on the line. This isn’t about the pay, it’s about mandating a safe nurse to patient ratio.
@@supreme5998 then why are they getting a massive pay increase with a huge reduction in hours? Seems like the nurses are the problem too
i should be a nurse
I call BS, nurses who work those hours also has side gig on there days off, and they complain about work hours. lol
Lock da doors!
Not your best work HNN. After the COO makes a statement that these nurses make between $130K to $160K per year for 3 days a week, no questioning to union workers, what they are seeking in these talks. Is it better safety for staff, better safety for patience's, better retirement benefits, what is the hold out??? This is one sided corporate reporting.
Just hope that they do not let ego and pride stand in their way.
The woman in the interview seems angry and probably very frustrated. It also seems like the salary is fair. The nurses there are amazing and do wonders for so many children. I hope they come to an agreement without the lockout. That would likely end bad for the nurses, the hospital and the children in the hospital.
Lock them out so if all employees decide not to who will take care of the patient?
Thats like dealerships saying they can easily replace their mechanics 😂😂😂
They can...
That's why mechanics don't strike.
they can dingus...
@@Snewpi das why they always got openings for entry level dork
@SoulEagle This has nothing to do with being entry level genius.
They are not in agreement for Hawaii and its people. CEO's have no clue. If you think Hawaii Nurses make top dollars then think again. In the corporate world; everyone is replaceable .
Cost of living effects versus safe number work practices in the work place. A walk out is worth the real world precedent on real life resources and interests that conflict and compete. This is worth watching the outcomes playout. 🍿🍿🍿Power, respect, and workplace dignity. Safe numbers means having some say and power over how many patients are assigned to a nurse. A high salary for 3 days a week under conditions of closely monitoring more patients than you can SAFELY handle is humanitarianly ....irresponsible and unrealistic principally. Please continue follow up to continue to further understand perspectives of healthcare and a caregiver from a humanistic and not purely a capitalistic perspective.
Greedy nurses our health care has already skyrocketed up. They are the highest paid at 130,000 to 160,000 that overpaid to me.
It’s about nurse to patient ratio and draconian scheduling practices. It’s about patient safety. Not at all about salary.
Sure, but what does an insurance company executive make? And they won't be walking you to the bathroom and wiping your butt at 3 AM.
It's not the bedside nurses sucking up the money in the healthcare system.
@@jaybleu6169 believe me they are a part of the problem and highly overpaid to wipe butt. If you cannot see that, you're part of the problem. Don't compare to distract from the real issue. You're gonna see 👀 health care inflation and you don't even care.
@John c. Why do you think the ratio of nurses to patients are the way they are, it's because the unions and nurses higher pay, the hospital is a business and they have to balance the books to stay in business. The union and nurses put the nurses in the position they're by being greedy . How stupid can they be backing up the union that's screwing them essentially
@@jaybleu6169 are you kidding me, our health care and insurance costs are already skyrocketed because of the nurses and union
Highest paid in hawaii and the nation. They are way too greedy, that's why there's a shortage of staff to balance the hospitals books. They created their own predicament. Keep on listening to the nurses association and union and it'll get worse for you.
Quit if they don't like their jobs, get plenty filipino nurses from the Philippines willing to work less than a third of your pay
The hospital is a business and cannot meet your outrageous demands, how silly 😜 does if sound to compare your wages with
Other states. There is different hardship criteria regarding where they live, for example, crime, pollution, weather etc. Get real
Kapolani just uno reversed the union. Well Played!
You might want to wipe that brown stuff off your nose.
@@kk4649k
Babooz you missed the point, $160k for three days work per week is one of the highest paid in the state of Hawai'i. You no think this why us non-$160k people gotta pay more for our premiums? If you working 3, you off for 4 no matter which way you twist it. Only get 168hrs per week cappy, and you off 96hrs of it to make $160k plus better benefits than most in the entire state and you still not happy? That's why you guys fool around so much..? Show me the lie…
shut up haole.
@@kk4649k
Where's the lie though?
@@kk4649k Stop with fake outrage. leave the emotions at home. Control yourself. Why are you butthurt?
It's not about the money, that's all these businesses people see, it's about safe staffing
Lockout would not be a smart move ma’am
Do your job instead of bugging another!
reading all these comments and not too many are really for the nurses. This added strike day is falling on their faces and now they have a lockout over their heads. Who will show up? I haven't read anything in the comments from any nurses. Can we hear from them. Let us know your challenges and what else is behind all this? I am really curious...Again IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY... LEAVE... really simple. $$$ will not change anything.
Because they got away with it in the past. Can't hurt to try again
The challenge is this: example, a nurse should be taking care of 1-2 mom and babies. That gives them 7.5 minutes to 15 minutes to check the vital signs, do an assessment, and push medications for each patient. The hospital can assign a 3rd pregnant mom in labor and make the nurse stretch. That cuts the time to 5 minutes or less to do their job. More things get missed. Sometimes, the hospital might even assign more if they’re short. This is really unsafe because patients conditions can change at any moment, but the nurse is still responsible for all their patients. What the nurses want is a safe limit to how many patients they can be assigned.
@@supreme5998 I understand and feel for the nurses in this working environment. But will more $$$ make this any better? It seems with this reasoning that you mentioned is that Kapiolani may need to hire more nurses that are in short supply right now. Pay will not fix this challenge. They will still be responsible for more patients then they can handle safely and to provide the care needed. Thank you for this example!!! This is something that really needs to be fixed. I wonder if other hospitals go through this same situation? They should be allowed a safe limit on how many patients they can care for and still keep the patients safe. But more pay will not fix this anyway you look at it. They will be seeking more $$$$ every year down the road. It will not end.
Nurses want $200k a year? Give me a break, if that’s the case then I’m dropping for law school and going to some gay ass hospital job!
Union members are obvious pawns in this battle. Sick of greed in this game.
You guys know why they will lock them out because they will just hire temp. from the mainland, give them room and board , pay them really good, take a lost just to hate on our local nurses.
Too all those who complain about nurse pay ,you will understand the work they do l had 3 major surgeries in the last 12 years and let me tell you they work their butts off and I wouldn’t be telling you this today if it weren’t for them
They work hard for 3 days a week! They get 4 days off a week. I don't even know any other job that allows for so many days off and still pays six figures. The nurses are greedy!
Once they leave Sept. 12, change the Locks and keep them out indefinitely.
And then hire all haoles from the mainland and pay them what their former employees was asking, yah good one dumbass.
That will accomplish nothing..
It will teach them that greed has consequences
Just don’t complain when your family member gets inadequate care
this must be why there have been people who have moving here all have nursing backgrounds
A lot of travel nurses. They get paid BIG BUCKS and free housing at some offices / hospitals. There are a lot of nurses that would love to move to Hawaii to work 3 12 hour shifts and have four days off. Shoot that is better than our firemen get I believe. Crazy. These men and women put their lives on the line everyday. Do they even make 100K a year? I wonder.
The lady from the union was saying they were getting 130 to 160G a year for working 3 days a week? True or not?
Not entirely true or untrue. Nobody is really making 160k as a floor nurse but 130k is possible.
130-160k for a three day work week is plenty of money! More than doctors get paid!!
The hospital says how much money they will pay, but doesn't mention what the work day is like.
My GUESS...is that nurses would like decent pay...with decent work rules. A lot of money is worthless if you drop dead from high paid slave labor and can't spend it.
I work at a hospital in Boston. We just went through this a week and a half ago. We vote to ratify next week. Hospital management doesn’t want to talk or listen. Stay strong and if they lock you out…good lick to them care for patients. Shows who they really care about and it’s not the patients or employees
I never thought about it before. I guess they have the right, just like the unions have the right to strike. Need to think more about it.
130k to 160k, and they are planning to strike... Try surviving in HI, making less than 60k. When is it too Far...Prayer for this world.
Yeah, except you don’t have to work at a job that puts your license at risk every day, and people’s life in your hands. The whole point of the strike is to keep the ratios mandated at a safe level. Right now if they are short on staff they can just pass on extra patients to nurses, which puts the life of the patients at risk and the license of the nurse at risk.
@supreme5998 Median whole Household income in Hawaii is 120k. HPD salary is 60k-70k, and they too save lives while putting their lives on the line every day. I guess I don't get it... that's what I thought the single individual income of 130k to 160k is for, so nurses are compensated fairly for the challenges you mention in the work environment. IDK..hmmm
@@justanotherfather2987 yeah. they're not fighting about the pay. They're striking to mandate a safe ratio of patients that the hospital can force nurses to cover. The safe ratio is to protect the patients and prevent nurses from stretching thin beyond their capabilities and risking their license.
@@supreme5998 the nurses are being unreasonable to Kapiolani. They are asking for more money, for less work while demanding for more staff. Maybe work a regular work week, reduce this pay increase then ask for more staff. These nurses are acting like petulant children throwing tantrums until they get what they want.
@@justanotherfather2987 until that's you or your family in there, coding, dying and nobody can get in there because the nurse is working on the other 7 patients. Then you'll be mad about why the hospital allowed such an off nurse to patient ratio...
OMG, who's next to go on strike.
they should work during the lockout.
How many times Nurses go on Strike a year?
Usually x amount of times until the new contract is signed. They just haven’t come to an agreement yet.
Money doesn’t grow on trees
Everyone wants to get paid more
unacceptable I need my pee tray changed
Change your heart.
Lol
Greed is good eh?
Please ! I pray they can come to a conclusion that surpasses money? The babies and children who are sick and can’t care for themselves are the ones that will suffer? And it’s not from only one side but both? Sad that it has to be all about money which is the only target point I see? Integrity and righteousness is how we should all walk!!
Get another job then
Some nurses are wild at Kapiolani…. I used to date one before. 🙄
How much nurses want? How much are they making ? Please share.
They are making $46-68 an hour. What they want is not more money. What they want is a mandated ratio limit of how many patients they can be assigned. Right now the hospital can assign as many patients as they want to each nurse. When you throw more patient load on a nurse, the lower the time the nurse has with each patient and puts the patients life at risk. The nurse is at risk of losing their license at any moment too. It’s not about the money. It’s about staffing.
@@supreme5998 thank you for sharing. What is the solution? What is the limit that nurses want? What is the average nurses handling patients now? What is the independent expert say about the reasonable limit?
@@powercomm Well there's a lot of nuances. It really depends on the acuity of the patients. For example, if it's labor and delivery, the safe ratio is 1:1 if it's intensive care or high risk, and 1:2 if it's not. Right now the nurses can be asked to cover 3 or 4 if the patients are not at high risk, but the patient's conditions could change during the 12-hour shifts. There are no current ratio rules, so the hospital can assign as many patients as they want right now. If we go by independent experts, the layout is in California (pretty much the only state with ratios) the ratio is 1:1 for high acuity and 1:2 for normal patients.
I'm hoping the union and these nurses are also increasing patient fees. I'm not to clear on all these claims affecting the nurses. How much do other nurses get paid in Hawaii? I'm a ride share driver and all I know is I pick up and drop off a lot of travel nurses. So we don't have enough nurses in Hawaii, why is this? Is it pay? Do other states have this same challenge? I mean 130 to 160K sounds pretty good for a three day twelve hour shift. If they go longer then twelve then they should be paid for it like any other hourly worker gets paid. Are they hourly? As we all know salary means free overtime for owners of businesses though most give it back to the employee some how. If not LEAVE and work at another hospital. Not happy where you work? LEAVE Not happy with your working conditions? LEAVE. I'm sorry but maybe the nurses got to let the public know more about these circumstances cause I haven't see anything and it looks like just plain old GREED to me. Maybe not the nurses they are being worked by the union. But we all know that unions are greedy and will do everything they can do get more $$$. Need more information. But I've always left a place I wasn't happy with. Just cause you have a union behind you and a whole bunch of co-workers behind you don't mean to do what you nurses and the union are doing. News folks; when reporting on this kine of story please include what other nurses on the island make on average and what are the claims? So if they get locked out what happens then? Kapiolani shut down? i mean the hospital just got remodeled and I'm sure the environment is a lot better. All I know is there must be a ton of jobs out there for nurses if we as a state are flying in these travel nurses and paying them some really huge $$$ to work here. Then they leave just shaking their heads. Not happy - LEAVE get plenty of jobs. Every time a company gives in to the unions the public pays. Okay we got high prices now. What happens after they get all these increases? FEES GO UP AND WE PAY... Come on people can Hawaii residents keep paying crazy $$$ for everything we buy and use. People could be dying cause it's so expensive to go to the hospital. For profit companies will always past any expense to the customer. As customers we got to put our foot down. We as customers are being abused also. Throughout my work experience I've found that unions are more detrimental to the workers then any type of help. Can they really save your job? Hmmmm, LOCK OUT means no job. How many will show up? Will all 600 show up. What are they getting paid now? thinking with my fingers just my sharing my thoughts on this.
sorry fo the rant, didn't realize it was so long...
@@durshi01 tl:dr, but if you think 3, 12 hour days as a bedside RN is an easy life, go ahead and go to nursing school, get your license, and give it a try.
@@jaybleu6169 I have no desire to do that. Reading some examples to the challenge our nurses are facing is that we have don't have enough nurses to care for the amount of patients that go to the hospital. Did I ever mention that their job was easy? NO. Never did mention that. But from the examples given it isn't really about pay. It is the amount of staff on hand to provide adequate care to the patients in Kapiolani. But also on the other hand I've gone into the hospitals and witnessed what the nurses are doing and the examples given isn't what I see. I see them talking, laughing, eating and not caring for their patients. Granted it wasn't in Kapiolani Hospital but another one. Are the situations so different in our hospitals? From the examples given so far. Pay will not fix this challenge. More nurses will. What could also be done? Outside of more $$$.
Honestly, the fact that medical centers aren't government-operated in this country is absurd; hospitals should be run like the best parts of the military, not like Amazon warehouses. If anything, there should be national drafts for various professions to prevent burnout for essential employees; if there was an overabundance of RNs, people could fill in for one or two days of work across a variety of jobs instead of performing the same, monotonous 72/120-hour work shifts walking around hospitals, drinking so much coffee they're sweating caffeine, applying the exact medication, watching their patients slowly die, and welcoming new patients who've been purposefully ruining their own health and/or got sent to the hospital for doing really, really stupid things. Most of the commentators on this webpage wouldn't give the time of day, let alone their full professional attention and personal care to every idiot who walked into their place of business.
I hope Hawaii Pacific Health is ready to move all of their patients to other facilities once their nursing staff is removed. 2/3 of the national Nurse workforce experiences burnout, the 2nd highest profession in the country.
I no longer work at the bedside, but when I did, my insurance agent was once trying to pitch me disability insurance. When I told him I was a nurse he said "Nevermind... you won't be able to afford it."
No kidding... the injury rate for bedside nurses is so high, disability insurance is so expensive your agent won't even waste his time trying to sell it to you.
Just close it and make Biden Harris Obama pay with ObamaCommieCare
Honestly... What's wrong with you? You pay taxes and get basically nothing for them. In other countries, the people pay taxes and get services in return... like healthcare. But you call that "communism". Why do you prefer a system where you pay, and pay, and pay, but get nothing?
Union is extortion. In my opinion its illegal to commit extortion! Lock them out❤
How many patients does each RN have per shift?
As many as the hospital wants to give them. That’s the problem right now.
The union nurses can't find a better job, but resort to strike. What a shame!
Their lead speaker is atrocious
You resort to strike because management don’t want to pay up. It’s never the greedy CEO’s responsibility huh , it’s the workers. Brainwashed people.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Looks like we may be seeing more temp nurses from mainland soon.
If the job is too hard they should quit. It pays well and there are people out there willing to work hard. Just look at these nurses nowadays. Bunch of lazy slobs.
AI computer coming for your job
That health care company should be fined for however long they keep mistreating their employees. SHAME ON KAPIOLANI for punishing hrdworking nurses. $160k is barely enough to live here, and nursing is THE HARDEST hospital job.
??? $160k is PLENTY and MORE THAN ENOUGH to live on O'ahu. What kine lifestyle you get? You drive one Lexus and you live Diamond Head? Mililani Mauka? Black Point? Kahala? Ferrragamo shoes every few months? Travel the world twice a year? Yeah I GUESS $160k not enough for the way YOU live. Esp when you get FOUR DAYS OFF to go holo holo, yeah? Shut your damn mouth. Get people struggling in Hawaii but you don't know them because you live gated community. "$160k barely enough" my ass.
What about the people who work make less then $160k living in Hawaii? You talk about livable wages at $160k when people like me make less then $60 and really trying to live in Hawaii! I would love to have that $160k salary or even half of that if good for me!
If you cannot make $160k per 3 day work week work, you neva was poor. Probably from Aina Hina?
@@howzit9397
She from Aina hina
They can go to the states where nurses make half that then.
Egos and greed has manifested into a shameful occurring situation and the nurses are the ground troops😮😢
Lock out will bring the hospital to its knees! The people struggle with health care as is. This would be the wrong move! You'll pay traveling nurses double what you pay now. Funnel those funds to the nurses!
They can move to the mainland for higher pay!
$160,000 isn't much when compared to the cost of living in Hawaii. The cost of living index is the highest of any state by a large margin.
$160,000 is literally the same salary as the ATTORNEY GENERAL, the governor and lieutenant governor make… it’s MORE than TWO state legislatures pay COMBINED!
STFU.
I support the nurses!
Greedy nurses get back to work
Is that head of the nurses union related to Whoopi Goldberg?
Another point, the COO states these nurses are the "best paid Nurses in the state" does not impress. I would like to know where Hawaii nurses rank in the US, since Hawaii is the most expensive state in the US to live, nurses pay should be comparative to the cost of living of a state. Note to Kapiolani Medical, they have planes in Hawaii making it very easy for skilled nurses to go elsewhere.
Threats and retaliatory actions NOT good faith IMO. Nurses despite being the backbone of DIRECT patient care, continue to be some of the lowest pay in a state with one the highest cost of living in the nation. Shame on the medical center for thinking threats are good faith bargaining 🤷🏼♀️
No worry we pay athletes 100s of millions of dollars for entertainment while firefighters nurses and Doctors save lives. It’s a world problem all over.
This is the end of America.
Again treating nurses as slaves or indentured workers.
@@georgecurtis6463 best paid slaves ever. Only 3 days of slavery with full benefits and a salary that surpasses 90% of the state. Pretty sure most would happy with that arrangement.
What slaves you know make $168k a year for three days of work a week!?