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Labor Hour: Fired Nurse Speaks Out |
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by Peter Miller
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03 Oct 2002
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Nikki Hurley, a nurse recently fired from Covenant Hospital for speaking out about declining patient care, will be a guest on the Illinois Labor Hour, Saturday October 5 at 11 a.m. WEFT 90.1 FM |
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Fired Nurse Featured On Illinois Labor Hour
Covenant Hospital in Urbana recently fired at least three nurses who spoke out about decreasing quality of health care at the hospital. On September 5, Nikki Hurley and two others spoke out at a public forum about patient care issues at Covenant, and on September 7, Hurley was fired. Hospital managers claim they fired Hurley because she used a fax machine for personal purposes, but Hurley and two others believe they were fired for trying to organize a union for nurses and for drawing attention to dangerously low hospital staffing. Like two others, Hurley was banned from setting foot on hospital premises after her firing.
This Saturday (October 5) at 11 a.m., Nikki Hurley will be a guest during the Illinois Labor Hour. She'll be joined by Claudia Lennhoff, director of the Champaign County Health Care Consumers, for a discussion about what's happening at Covenant Hospital and about the abandoned effort to organize a nurses' union. That's this Saturday at 11 on WEFT.
http://www.news-gazette.com/ngsearch/story.cfm?number=12284 |
See also:
http://www.news-gazette.com/ngsearch/story.cfm?number=12269
http://www.news-gazette.com/ngsearch/story.cfm?number=12276
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