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CT hospital workers on strike, doing what is so typical of people who don’t know any better.

STAMFORD — After three days on the picket line, Gloria Miller said she is returning to her cashier job at Stamford Hospital’s cafeteria disappointed.

“I’m happy to go back to work, but I’m not happy we didn’t get a contract,” Miller said yesterday as she took a break from picketing and waving her yellow flag.

After 26 years at the hospital and an hourly wage of $14, Miller said she doesn’t earn enough to cover the proposed health insurance costs for her four children under the hospital’s plan.

I worked in a hospital dietary dept. for a while and if I made $14.00 sitting around on a cash register I’de be quite happy. There is NO skill to this job. AT ALL. Who pays this? Patients. You. Me. Our government. We all subsidize these pay rates, and it’s not right. It would be one thing if this were a nursing position, but COME ON…cash register?
Give me a break!

Miller said she would have to shell out $100 a week to cover her family. She doesn’t pay any health insurance premiums.

“I wouldn’t be able to make it living in Stamford,” she said.

Join the rest of the working people of America. Healthcare costs are going UP, UP and UP. And the unions that represent healthcare workers add to this increase.

The three-day strike at Stamford Hospital over job retention and health-care coverage — which began Wednesday — ended without incident or a settlement yesterday.

Workers garnered support from Mayor Dannel Malloy and clergy members, who rallied with the workers and drew complaints from patients and residents about the noisy strikers.

Oh now this is sweet. Just what patients want. To see those who claim to care for them, outside making a ruckus and noise and being generally, immature.

Not all of the striking workers will be welcomed back today.

Of the 171 dietary workers and nursing service employees who were striking, all but 76 certified nursing assistants were able to return to work today because of a five-day temporary staffing contract commitment, hospital officials said.

Dietary workers have little in common with nursing. While the central purpose of everyone’s job is to take care of patients, each department has separate and very different workloads. I would HATE to think of going on a strike because a kitchen workers wasn’t happy with their wage. I would walk across the picket line in a heartbeat.

Read the rest of this bulloney of an article. I get too ticked off when I read this stuff and think, THESE people represent ALL OF US. Not me.