In 1965, Patton (1998) used mass resignation as a method to change employment conditions following thwarted CB efforts. As a staff nurse in an Ohio hospital, she was part of a nursing staff that faced "staffing and scheduling problems, no input in decisions affecting nursing, physicians controlling promotions, a low starting wage, few benefits, and no pension" (p. 80). She recounted, "the final insult was management’s offer of a 10-cent-per-hour raise for full-time nurses, with only five cents per hour for part-time nurses, which were most of us.