When Nurses Go On Strike… Are There No Nurses?

We knew this was coming, and now there’s a date…  the nurses union has said that around 3,400 Kaiser Permanente nurses plan to strike on November 15th.  Unless workplace conditions improve, their workers will not show up or walk out that morning at 6:00 a.m.  

So, real talk…  what happens if they go on strike?  Are there just…  no nurses?  Seems like I’ve seen strikes like this in the past, and they usually leave some key people behind just so there’s no lives in danger.  But is that the case here?  I really don’t understand how healthcare strikes work…  functionally.  I get it when steel-workers leave the building; no steel gets made.  Management loses money, so they try to make people happy again.  But with healthcare…  there’s lives at stake.

Somebody explain this to me?

~Jake from 98.7 The Bull