They lose a maternity ward - they hire specialized nurses. You mean a group of MDs in Management can't figure out who to hire? Get adequately staffed or reduce service. Can't have it both ways.

What is missing from Management's toolset? Spell it out for me. You make it sound like the CEO or anyone below him don't have the power to make tough calls, like reduce service to reflect inadequate staffing, or raise financing, or just overall powerless to watch this unfold. Will all avenues perfectly work out? No, then Management balances all the info. It was predictable there'd be gaps, so how did Management address the immediate issues?

At the end of the day, nurses were striking over inadequate staffing ratios (i.e., too many patients vs nurses), among other things, that Management was unwilling to fix. So it seems like someone/several people in Management need to wake up.

Saying inadequate workers to contributed to the death is literally the tip of the iceberg and not reflective of the root cause(s). Go down a couple levels of why and those are your root causes. And Management's task is to figure out how to solve that. Not the workers, not the board, Management's.

^ this

I didnt say there'd be unlimited budget or nurses. There are Other avenues like limiting or shutting down services.

If some McD workers quit but the manager says business as usual, and you got hungry angry customers, you gonna look to the Manager to fix or the ex-workers to fix?

You can give management all the slack you want, but no way are workers to blame. Even then, Management proposes the budget, in charge of swaying the board, lining up financing, figuring out budget, etc. They knew months in advance. Dont forget in most of the time, Management is close with the board; its not as adversarial /grilling the CEO as its supposed to be in an ideal governance scenario.

It literally comes down to who is in charge of making decisions and who made what decisions - and did those decisions work out for them (Management, Management, and no). Then Management fixes it.

Management knew months in advance about a strike. They didn't prepare a good enough contingency plan. I don't see how that's on the workers. Thats the whole point of Management. Nurses don't manage.

Damn, you telling me management only got 24 hours notice about the strike?

E: added "got".

That's on management to ... manage.