title: Television news coverage of nurse strikes: a resource management perspective.
abstract: The quality of television news coverage of nurses' strikes and other labor activities plays a crucial role in expanding such conflicts to the public with either prolabor or promanagement colorations. It was found that access to the medium was influenced by the magnitude of the disruption. Nurse unions are benefited by more positive television news coverage when they (1) project an image of solidarity, (2) maintain unity over time, and (3) receive the support of other types of health-care workers. As predicted, hospital administrators were the most negative in televised comments about striking nurses.
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D009726:Nurses; D011641:Public Relations; D012938:Social Perception; D013317:Strikes, Employee; D013690:Television