GLENDALE, Calif. (KTLA) — Hospital employees are taking to the picket lines at Glendale Memorial Hospital to protest the recent decision to lay off dozens of workers.
Registered nurses, respiratory and X-ray technicians and other staff say that the layoffs will adversely affect patient care.
“We are all here to support the 41 support people who were laid off, who are our assistants, very needed,” said Kathy Sampson, who has been a nurse at the hospital for 27 years.
“They are nurses’ aides, they are monitor techs who watch our heart monitors… It’s kitchen help, it’s LVNs, it’s transporters,” she said.
“There are a lot of people, and we feel that’s going to contribute to unsafe care, because the RNs are going to have to take over those jobs.”
She also said that letting housekeeping workers go is particularly problematic during flu season.
The picketers planned to remain outside the hospital until at least 9 a.m., and possibly later.
Glendale Memorial Hospital has released a statement saying:
“We regret any inconvenience this might cause our patients, physicians and staff, and we remain eager and willing to resolve contract issues in a respectful and professional manner.”
13 Comments to “Glendale Hospital Workers Protest Layoffs”
January 31, 2013 at 8:16 AM
and the Medical 'Industry' brings in more profit. Keep protesting…………won't do any good.
January 31, 2013 at 8:22 AM
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January 31, 2013 at 9:18 AM
Dumb crackers
January 31, 2013 at 10:05 AM
You need to get a job.
January 31, 2013 at 9:44 AM
I'm guessing they're union. Pick your poison – unions can't squeeze the employer for every dollar then cry when the layoffs come.
January 31, 2013 at 10:05 AM
Unions. Pieces of shhhhhht
January 31, 2013 at 10:28 AM
Interesting $5.0 for a Tylenol you figure.
January 31, 2013 at 12:02 PM
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January 31, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Do your homework…Hospitals are not making money anymore. Indigent patients (no insurance) that they have to treat and decreased Medicare/Medi-Cal Benefits no longer support high staff ratios.
January 31, 2013 at 12:55 PM
have to cut wages, the wetbacks fill the ER then sue after they don't follw the doc. orders
January 31, 2013 at 1:49 PM
But like I said, I'm an idiot and white.
January 31, 2013 at 2:02 PM
So the RNs will actually have to monitor the patients' monitors?! Shocking! Outrageous!
January 31, 2013 at 2:56 PM
Hospitals get it from both ends from Obamacare. They have the same increased costs of doing business as any other employer, combined with higher regulatory costs and lower reimbursement from Medicare.
Get used to hospital layoffs, people.