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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on Demand from

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<v Speaker 1>KFI AM six forty.

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<v Speaker 2>With moo Kelly onk AM six. Registered nurses at Memorial

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<v Speaker 2>Care Long Beach Medical Center gave notice to their employer

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<v Speaker 2>back on May eighth that they will hold a one

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<v Speaker 2>day strike starting at seven am on May twenty second,

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<v Speaker 2>to protest the hospital's refusal to what they call a

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<v Speaker 2>dishonest engagement in good faith negotiations over needed improvements to

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<v Speaker 2>patient care, nurse working conditions and staffing. Joining us right

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<v Speaker 2>now on Later with mo Kelly is registered nurse Nedra

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<v Speaker 2>Gails to give us some sense or at least on

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<v Speaker 2>the side of nurses, what is going on both inside

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<v Speaker 2>the hospital and outside of it as far as negotiations.

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<v Speaker 2>Neda Gails is nice to have you on the show tonight.

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<v Speaker 2>How are you, Thank you, Moe.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm doing well.

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<v Speaker 2>How should I describe how desperate or I should say

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<v Speaker 2>how concerned nurses are at the working conditions at Long

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<v Speaker 2>Beach Memorial.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, the primary reason for the nurses going on strike

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<v Speaker 3>is for the sake of our patients and also for ourselves,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, our our protests is it's towards the management

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<v Speaker 3>for their refusal to just address the concerns that the

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<v Speaker 3>nurses have regarding safe patient care, staffing, workplace violence protections,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, just the overall well being of the

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<v Speaker 3>pace population that we cared for at Memorial and other children.

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<v Speaker 2>Do I have this correct? That there was a negotiation

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<v Speaker 2>which was planned for late last week and instead of

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<v Speaker 2>the negotiation they handed out pink slips to various nurses.

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<v Speaker 2>Is that correct?

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<v Speaker 3>The negotiation was set for last Friday and our management

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<v Speaker 3>team decided not to appear. Our nurse negotiation team did

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<v Speaker 3>it follow through and we were present at the table

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<v Speaker 3>ready to meet and discuss and hopefully come together with

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<v Speaker 3>a contract that was very inequitable, but again the management

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<v Speaker 3>of the hospital decided that they would not come.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell me out what's it like on an average day

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<v Speaker 2>in Long Beach Memorial because of these issues? Are nurses

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<v Speaker 2>being overworked? Are they not getting the type of support

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<v Speaker 2>and support staff that they need? What are some of

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<v Speaker 2>the central issues which is having nurses speak out and

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<v Speaker 2>also protests, picket and eventually go on strike May twenty second.

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<v Speaker 3>So mo, what we are asking for regarding the safe

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<v Speaker 3>staffing is, you know, we want to be able to

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<v Speaker 3>take care of our patients the best way we can,

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<v Speaker 3>and when we have units that are not fully staffed,

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<v Speaker 3>patients are waiting for long periods of time for care

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<v Speaker 3>in our emergency departments. Those kinds of situations are concerning

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<v Speaker 3>to the nurses and to the community.

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<v Speaker 2>Now that you are shorter staffed, because I know there

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<v Speaker 2>have been layoffs, what is the concern, In other words,

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<v Speaker 2>are there going to be any gaps in patient help

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<v Speaker 2>or patient care between now and the twenty second because

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<v Speaker 2>of these recent layoffs.

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<v Speaker 3>So because of one of the things that we're asking

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<v Speaker 3>for with regards to our protests, it does have to

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<v Speaker 3>do with services being cut to the community. An example

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<v Speaker 3>is our outpatient children's clinics. Because of these layoffs that

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<v Speaker 3>you mentioned of, some of those services are quite possibly

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<v Speaker 3>not going to continue the way that the community has

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<v Speaker 3>known them. A prime example is the closing of of

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<v Speaker 3>the outpatient Children's Village pharmacy, where a lot of the

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<v Speaker 3>children that are seen in those clinics, they are having

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<v Speaker 3>to get their medications from outside pharmacies that they're not

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<v Speaker 3>familiar with, and some of the specialized medications are harder

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<v Speaker 3>to attain.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're just tuning in, my guest right now is

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<v Speaker 2>Nedra Gails, who is a registered nurse working at Long

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<v Speaker 2>Beach Memorial. We're talking about how nurses have given notice

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<v Speaker 2>to their employer that on May twenty second, they plan

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<v Speaker 2>to go on a one day strike starting at seven

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<v Speaker 2>am on May twenty second, to bring more like to

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<v Speaker 2>negotiations with it, which at this point have been stalled

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<v Speaker 2>over needed improvements to patient care, working conditions and staffing.

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<v Speaker 2>And Netje let me pick up there on May twenty second.

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<v Speaker 2>If things progress as they seem to be progressing, what

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<v Speaker 2>does that one day strike look like? And how many

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<v Speaker 2>nurses are we talking about? Everyone? How does the hospital

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<v Speaker 2>continue to function without your work.

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<v Speaker 3>So well? One of the big deals about this strike.

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<v Speaker 3>We proposed a one day strike starting on May twenty

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<v Speaker 3>second and ending the night of May twenty second. The

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<v Speaker 3>management of the hospital has elected to lock us out

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<v Speaker 3>until well for four days, so it'll be a tool

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<v Speaker 3>of five days that you know we will be away

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<v Speaker 3>from the bedside.

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<v Speaker 2>Does that let me jump in there? Does that mean

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<v Speaker 2>that patients will be lacking for care or will they

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<v Speaker 2>be bringing in other nurses from other locations or other

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<v Speaker 2>physicians assistance if you will to cover the gap while

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<v Speaker 2>you are not working there during that time.

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<v Speaker 3>So during the time that we are out on strike,

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<v Speaker 3>the hospital management has made the decision to bring in replacement,

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<v Speaker 3>and it comes on that decision comes on the heels

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<v Speaker 3>of the approximately eighty nurses that have been laid off,

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<v Speaker 3>and it gives kind of a mixed what's the word like?

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<v Speaker 3>It gives us Yeah, because the hospital is investing in

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<v Speaker 3>outside workforce when there have been nurses that have been

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<v Speaker 3>laid off from their jobs, and then we we're willing

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<v Speaker 3>and are willing to come back to work after our protests. No,

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<v Speaker 3>it doesn't really like balance. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to get to a far ahead of

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<v Speaker 2>what your union is proposing to do. But in a

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<v Speaker 2>general sense, if we continue on this path and management

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<v Speaker 2>at Long Beach Memorial is reluctant to negotiate, or does

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<v Speaker 2>not start restart negotiations, or does not meet your demands

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<v Speaker 2>prior to the strike at this point is listed as

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<v Speaker 2>one day, but could this then be extended for an

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<v Speaker 2>indeterminate amount of time and just go on into in

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<v Speaker 2>perpetuity until your demands have been met.

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<v Speaker 3>Them? You know, again, our negotiations team is willing and

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<v Speaker 3>wanting to reach an agreement before any type of decision

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<v Speaker 3>like that is made, because the nurses really want to

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<v Speaker 3>take care of our patients. That's what we really want

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<v Speaker 3>to do.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me ask you this, what is morale like among

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<v Speaker 2>many of the nurses that you work with, those who

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<v Speaker 2>you speak with. I have some friends full disclosure, who

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<v Speaker 2>do work at Long Beach Memorial, and I know what

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<v Speaker 2>they say to me about their level of frustration. What

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<v Speaker 2>is it you here beyond what you experience.

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<v Speaker 3>The nurses that I have experienced. The feeling is we

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<v Speaker 3>all want the same things. We want scatting to improve.

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<v Speaker 3>We want our paces to be taken care of in

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<v Speaker 3>a safe manner, and we want to provide a safe

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<v Speaker 3>place for the patients and for the nurse.

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<v Speaker 2>Is at the end of the day, before I let

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<v Speaker 2>you go, Metric Gails, I wonder have you found any

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<v Speaker 2>solidarity or support from the other staff at the hospital.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean from doctors, I don't know, radiologists, anyone else

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<v Speaker 2>who may work alongside by side with you in the

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<v Speaker 2>hospital Long Beach Memorial. What have they been saying? Are

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<v Speaker 2>they willing to stand with you on any level?

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<v Speaker 3>I can say more that there is a great deal

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<v Speaker 3>of solidarity for this particular action and for the want

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<v Speaker 3>that our nurses have put forth.

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<v Speaker 2>She is Netric Gails, registered nurse at Long Beach Memorial

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<v Speaker 2>and I would say a representative of the fight to

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<v Speaker 2>improve nursing conditions at Long Beach Medical Center. Metric Gaels

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<v Speaker 2>I have been following this issue from AFAR, but now

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a little bit more closely involved in a associated

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<v Speaker 2>and watching it evolve. Can we have you back on

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<v Speaker 2>the future in the future so we can further follow

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<v Speaker 2>up on this.

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<v Speaker 3>Nod If you would call me, I would come absolutely.

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