HAWAII HOSPITAL LOCKS OUT NURSES AFTER ONE-DAY STRIKE

In a brazen move to pressure nurses to accept a management offer, the management at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Hawaii locked out 600 nurses indefinitely beginning Sept. 14. The lockout began a day after the nurses held a one-day strike to protest the ongoing bullying tactics of the medical center in retaliation for nurses reporting unsafe staffing conditions and expressing their concern for the safety of patients.

The nurses, members of the Hawaii Nurses Association OPEIU Local 50, have been working without a contract since December 1st, 2023 and they refuse to give up on winning a contract that will hold the hospital accountable for unsafe staffing incidents.

Hawaii Nurses Assn bulletin. 9/14