Henry Ford Rochester Hospital nurses are on strike
Source: Detroit News
Myesha Johnson
The Detroit News
Rochester — Hoisting signs, wearing red shirts and raising their voices, more than 100 registered nurses spent hours picketing outside Henry Ford Rochester Hospital on Monday to start a strike aimed at securing better staff-to-patient ratios and pay.
Members of OPEIU Local 40 planned to strike through Wednesday what they say are unfair labor practices.
Cheryl Herrmann, 60, who has been working at Henry Ford Rochester Hospital since 2011, said she has seen the hospital change ownership three times. She said that when the hospital was run by a smaller business, it cared more about staff and quality patient care.
"It's very disheartening when you see that you cannot provide the level of care that you really want to, to provide the level of compassion that you really want to because there's inadequate resources available," she said.
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