Hundreds of nurses at Austin’s Ascension Seton Medical Center walked out of the hospital today, kicking off the largest nurses strike in Texas history.
Nurses at Austin’s Ascension Seton Medical Center went on strike Tuesday after reaching a bargaining impasse with management over hiring and retention. They say current workloads are causing burnout.
A top concern for the union is lower guaranteed nurse-to-patient staffing ratios. Nurses at the hospital say they are assigned too many patients at a time, causing nurses to burn out and patients to receive a lower standard of care. At 9:30 a.m., nurses were joined for a rally by union representatives and community leaders, including U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, who praised the nurses for fighting for patient safety.
NNU called this additional three-day lockout “a deliberate ploy to intimidate nurses from speaking out.” But Matthew Clark, an ICU nurse at the hospital and a member of the union’s negotiating team, said the move has caused more nurses to join the strike effort.
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