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Tampa Veterans Affairs nurses protest coronavirus safety hazards
Aug 8, 2020
Union members protesting the Veterans Affairs decision to eliminate hazard pay during the COVID-19 pandemic gathered outside James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa this week.
The Florida demonstration was one of more than 200 National Nurses United protests across the country demanding better protection for veterans and nursing staff at VA facilities amid a reported shortage of personal protective equipment.
"These recent COVID surges and uncontrolled infections and deaths, the failure of employers to protect our nurses and other workers, the outrageously high rates of unemployment and hunger, the totalitarian crackdown on protesters — every crisis we are seeing now can be traced back to our failure to value human lives over profit," National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo said in a statement.
National Nurses United is urging the Senate to pass the multitrillion-dollar HEROES Act , approved by House Democrats but stalled by the Senate, which would utilize the Defense Production Act to generate more protective equipment, bring economic relief and order the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to institute an emergency temporary standard on infectious diseases.
Following months of nationwide calls to put a stop to racial inequality , the union aslo insisted on an end to racism and union-busting at VA facilities.
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