Nurses strike at Robert Wood Johnson

If the horror stories the striking nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick are telling about their inadequate health insurance coverage are true, the nurses would seem to have a legitimate gripe. Health care workers, of all people, should be provided with health insurance that is at least as good as the patients they are caring for.
At the same time, it's hard to feel too sorry for nurses who are paid as well as those at Robert Wood Johnson. The starting salary there is $60,000 a year; the average salary, depending on which figure you believe, is either $78,000 (according to the union) or $90,000 (says hospital management). Neither is too shabby.
Given the huge sums spent on the salaries of the 1,300 nurses, you would think management would be able to offer reasonable health benefits. And given the salaries the nurses are making, they should be willing to make concessions in other areas - including salaries - to come up with a health plan they find acceptable.
It's amazing they haven't been able to find common ground by now, two weeks into the strike.