Nurse strike
Introduction
This essay will be discussing the current issue of conflict between nurses’ demand of increase on their pay and government’s comparatively lower related nurse pay policy. Background information will presented first, followed by an analysis on the strike and reasons why this strike happens. In the end, there will be theoretical evaluation about industrial relations focusing on absenteeism and industry productivity.
Background information
The contemporary human society is composed with many fundamental facilities and public infrastructures to provide citizens one enjoyable environment to live in. Due to the rapid development of technology, people are getting used to all those convenient high-tech inventions all over the society which are eventually replacing human working force except one job, Nurse. Nurses play a significant role in healthcare area in our daily life and this specific job requires continuous communicating ability, clear mind, complex healthcare skills and rapid reactions towards emergency despite various situations. This group of people can be just general helpers in normal days and will be irreplaceable in some occasions such as disasters and wars. Thousands of human lives are saved by nurses every year with great patience and uncountable sacrifices. Thurs, the importance of this job is also well acknowledged by the public as well as the glory of life-saving.
Nurses generally related to hospitals and healthcare centers and there are around 257,200 nurses in New South Wales and number per 100,000 population by health occupation ratio is around 1250 (ABS 2012). Once one firth of nurses working in those hospitals refused to work as usual, there will be approximately 20,000 people’s health not being monitored and thrown to possible danger (Duffield, C. et. al 2011).
According to Courtyney Bembridge (2013), nurses have voted to strike for 24 hours on 25 Feb 2013 if their pay off demand is not met. The strike taking place on 25 Feb
This essay will be discussing the current issue of conflict between nurses’ demand of increase on their pay and government’s comparatively lower related nurse pay policy. Background information will presented first, followed by an analysis on the strike and reasons why this strike happens. In the end, there will be theoretical evaluation about industrial relations focusing on absenteeism and industry productivity.
Background information
The contemporary human society is composed with many fundamental facilities and public infrastructures to provide citizens one enjoyable environment to live in. Due to the rapid development of technology, people are getting used to all those convenient high-tech inventions all over the society which are eventually replacing human working force except one job, Nurse. Nurses play a significant role in healthcare area in our daily life and this specific job requires continuous communicating ability, clear mind, complex healthcare skills and rapid reactions towards emergency despite various situations. This group of people can be just general helpers in normal days and will be irreplaceable in some occasions such as disasters and wars. Thousands of human lives are saved by nurses every year with great patience and uncountable sacrifices. Thurs, the importance of this job is also well acknowledged by the public as well as the glory of life-saving.
Nurses generally related to hospitals and healthcare centers and there are around 257,200 nurses in New South Wales and number per 100,000 population by health occupation ratio is around 1250 (ABS 2012). Once one firth of nurses working in those hospitals refused to work as usual, there will be approximately 20,000 people’s health not being monitored and thrown to possible danger (Duffield, C. et. al 2011).
According to Courtyney Bembridge (2013), nurses have voted to strike for 24 hours on 25 Feb 2013 if their pay off demand is not met. The strike taking place on 25 Feb