Common use of UNINTERRUPTED PATIENT CARE Clause in Contracts

UNINTERRUPTED PATIENT CARE. 19.1 The parties to this Agreement realize that this Hospital and other health care institutions provide special essential services to the community. For this and other humanitarian reasons, it is the intent of the parties to settle disputes by the grievance procedure provided for herein. It is, therefore, agreed that during the term of this Agreement, (a) the Employer shall not lock out its nurses, and (b) neither the nurses nor their agents nor other representatives shall, directly or indirectly, authorize, assist or encourage participation in any way in any strike, including any sympathy strike, picketing, walk-out, slow-down, boycott, or any other interference with the operations of the Employer, nor shall any nurse refuse to cross any other labor organization’s picket line.