I am a nurse at a large hospital.
Last year hospital management instituted large incentive bonuses to encourage us to pick up shifts. And we did, boy did we pick up shifts. So much so that they thought the staffing problem was solved.
Last month they ended the bonus. We all stopped picking up. We decided en masse to let the hospital fail in spectacular fashion and boy did it ever. ER had 8+ hour waits to be seen, boarding patients for >36 hours, surgeries postponed, transfers in declined… we hit them where it hurts the most, their bottom line.
Less than a month later they reinstated the bonus with the added caveat that they're doubling their efforts at hiring because predicting staffing levels is “complex and quite difficult”.
We're a union hospital going in to contract renewal. I think we made our collective voices heard without muttering a sound