Walgreens pharmacists to strike

[Tyler Derden]

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I'm surprised there is no discussion of this...IMO organized labor is the most unproductive thing ever in a free market economy and it sickens me to see college educated people resorting to this when all they have to do is let the market correct itself by leaving their jobs to somewhere better...

 

[BMBiology]

I am not going to argue about the merit of the strike but I am glad that pharmacists are finally standing up for what they believe in.

 

[Caverject]

I have never even heard of NPhA before tonight

 

[trishias]

Just received a call from a RN whose patient is about to be discharged and wanted us to give her one time dose of lovenox and coumadin because Walgreens is going on strike and patient didnt want to take scripts there. Because we dont do outpatient scripts anymore, I had to direct her to the 24hr Jewel-Osco.

 

[Ivorymist]

I've never heard of them either. Apparently they have a decent number of members, at least locally...

But yeah, glad to see Rphs stand up, get together and make some things happen.

 

[indoflip]

The NPhA is the Chicago area Walgreens union.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

IMO organized labor is the most unproductive thing ever in a free market economy

Ah, yes, the classic hypocritical complaint of the capitalist. The free market rules....unless labor is smart enough to band together and offer themselves as the commodity.

 

[no-see-um]

Ah, yes, the classic hypocritical complaint of the capitalist. The free market rules....unless labor is smart enough to band together and offer themselves as the commodity.

In NYC, for example, nurses are well organized and they are able to fight for, and negotiate good working contracts for that reason. With such strength, I believe comes the unintentional encroachment into other areas of work in the hospitals. For instance, a lot of the drug therapy care is in their hands rather than those of the unorganized pharmacists. Why should this be?

There should be more pharmacist banding. It's a sad state of affairs when educated professions should- as a previous poster had opined- be obligated rather to leave their jobs in order to 'let the market correct itself', than to let their grievences be known and heard by their employers. It could make the pharmacy stronger with such input from pharmacy groups, versus solely from businessmen.

 

[bananaface]

I have never even heard of NPhA before tonight

They had a booth at APhA. I had never heard of them before that either.