Nurses walk off the job Thursday morning at seven East Bay hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health [View all]
Source: Mercury News
By Sandy Kleffman
Hundreds of registered nurses walked off the job Thursday morning at seven East Bay hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health in the latest salvo in a longstanding dispute over wages, benefits and service cutbacks.
The hospitals have hired replacement nurses on five-day contracts and plan to lock out the striking employees until 7 a.m. Tuesday.
This marks the sixth time since September 2011 that the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses United has gone on strike and set up picket lines in front of Sutter facilities in the Bay Area.
The affected hospitals are three Alta Bates Summit Medical Center facilities in Oakland and Berkeley, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, San Leandro Hospital, Sutter Delta in Antioch and Sutter Solano in Vallejo.
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Nurses Strike Sutter Health
Registered Nurse Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto speaks during a one-day strike outside the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. As many as 3,200 registered nurses hit the picket lines at seven hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health in the Bay Area. (Anda Chu/Staff)
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