The Gazette-Advertiser, Exchange and News, January 6, 2013

Page 7, Column 2.

Tollwood Hospital Strike!

By: Alastair Kenzie McWhiskie

Hospital patients are being turned away since yesterday when Tollwood Hospital cleaning staff struck: ‘It’s a blow for our rights’ said union secretary Violet Mudhaven as she manned a freezing picket line to block the entrance to Tollwood Hospital Casualty Department. “We are sick of this mistreatment by management, medical staff and patients and the insanity in psychiatry.”

Ms. Mudhaven said the union list of grievances also includes demands for increased overtime pay, better quality mops and a hardship allowance for attending members of the Hardparcel family. She explained: “There was vomit on the ceiling and one of our members was nearly killed trying to get encrusted nastiness off the walls of Casualty.”