Sutter Delta RNs Vote to Strike: Safe Staffing, Health Plan Reductions At Issue In 10 Northern California Sutter Hospitals

CNA/NNOC represents over 5,000 registered nurses in 14 Sutter hospitals throughout Northern California. Negotiations are taking place in 10 of those hospitals.

Sutter's substandard healthcare proposal unacceptable

Sutter Delta RNs are particularly incensed with a proposal that would sharply reduce their choices of doctors and other providers while substantially increasing out-of-pocket healthcare costs for RNs and their families.

Many RNs could lose access to doctors and other caregivers they have counted on for years. While curbing freedom of choice, Sutter wants the nurses to pay far more – demanding a huge increase in premium co-pays and deductibles for health coverage.

CNA Sutter Division Director, Bonnie Castillo, RN called the demand "insulting to caregivers who have devoted years of service to this hospital and their community. It is outrageous that Sutter Delta would seek to seriously undermine health security and choice for their RNs."