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Nurses to Hold Major Unity Rally Sunday As Successful Sutter Strike Concludes
Friday, March 28, 2008 : A strike by 4,000 registered nurses at ten Bay Area Sutter facilities will conclude this week, with a major unity rally Sunday at noon at California Pacific Medical Center-Cal Campus featuring elected officials, community leaders, and nurses from across the Bay Area celebrating the success of the walkout, which is due to end Monday at 7 a.m.
The ten-day RN strike has been one of the longest and most spirited in recent Bay Area history. Sutter has engaged in a series of retaliatory measures against nurses, including threats of loss of employment and health benefits, that led the California Nurses Association on Thursday to file a series of unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board. The result of such harassment has been to unify the RNs, leading to 95 percent participation in the strike.
The dispute at the heart of the strike is patient care, with nurses protesting Sutter’s systemic endangerment of patients by understaffing. The nurses are also striking for fair healthcare and retirement benefits, and to stop Sutter from “medical redlining,” the closing of community hospitals in medically-underserved areas.
Read MoreWhat: Unity Rally by RNs from Across Bay Area, featuring Sen. Leland Yee, Assemblywoman Fiona Ma and Supervisors Tom Ammiano, Chris Daly, and Jake McGoldrick
When: Sunday, March 30, 12 Noon
Where: CPMC-California Campus, 3700 California Street
For more information:
http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/pres...
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