Anti-labor terrorists attack striking hospital workers at Eden Hospital

From: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/wkrs-m07.shtml
Strikers injured on picket line in California hospital strike

Picket line incidents injured three strikers at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, California, last week. One woman was pepper-sprayed by a strikebreaker, while a man and a woman were hit in separate incidents by cars. Kathy Silva, an operating room administrative assistant, was taken to the hospital’s emergency room with minor injuries to her hips and legs. Later, she returned to the picket line, telling the Contra Costa Times, “I want to support my employees. We need to stick together.”

On March 2, at a noontime rally outside the hospital, about a dozen doctors in their white lab coats appeared on the picket lines to show support for strikers. They told the press that Sutter Health, which runs the hospital, is only concerned with the bottom line.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) represents the striking clerical and food service workers, as well as licensed vocational nurses who have been without a contract for three years.