Week Four: Booker Speaks out for Striking Nurses

As the nurses’ strike at New Brunswick’s Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital entered its fourth week United Steelworkers Local 4-200 showed no signs of losing their resolve to holdout for safer staffing levels. Energy remains high on the picket line.

Judy Danella is an RN, and president of USW Local 4-200. Danella told InsiderNJ her members were buoyed by the backing from other healthcare unions and the broader community, including a growing list of supportive elected officials who site the nurses’ heroics during COVID as well as the weaknesses in the healthcare system that became so apparent during the pandemic.

“As of right now, there are no new negotiations scheduled,” Danella said.  “We’ve had a candlelight vigil.

The hospital just contracted […].

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