[gillijr1001]

Nurses Set to Strike 15 Hospitals Wednesday and Thursday
California’s Biggest RN Strike This Decade
As Nurses Take a Stand for Safe Patient Care

Taking a stand for improving patient care standards, nearly 5,000 registered nurses are preparing to strike 15 Northern California hospitals Wednesday morning in California’s largest strike of registered nurses in a decade.

All but two of the hospitals are in the Bay Area and include some of the biggest hospitals in the Sutter Health chain, including Alta Bates Summit Medical Center with hospitals in Berkeley and Oakland, Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Burlingame and San Mateo, and California Pacific Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco.
RNs at two Fremont-Rideout Health Group hospitals, Fremont Medical Center in Yuba City and Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville, will also be on strike. No talks are scheduled at any of the 15 facilities involved in the walkout.

The strike is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, October 10 and run until 7 a.m. on Friday, October 12. At some of the hospitals, management has threatened to prolong the dispute with a lockout of nurses for up to an additional three days after the strike ends.

Other Sutter hospitals affected are Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, San Leandro Hospital, Sutter Delta in Antioch, Sutter Solano in Vallejo, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, Sutter Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, and Sutter Novato.

Picketing begins at all 15 hospitals at 7 a.m.

Rallies will be held from 12 noon to 1 p.m. at the following sites:

Wednesday, October 10 * 12 noon - 1 p.m. Rallies

• Alta Bates Summit, Berkeley campus - 2450 Ashby Ave., Berkeley
• Eden Medical Center - 20103 Lake Chabot Rd., Castro Valley
• Mills-Peninsula Health Services, Peninsula campus - 1501 Trousdale Dr., Burlingame
• Rideout Memorial Hospital - 726 4th St., Marysville
• St. Luke’s Hospital - 3555 Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco
• Sutter Delta Medical Center - 3901 Lone Tree Way, Antioch
• Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, main campus - 3325 Chanate Rd., Santa Rosa

Thursday, October 11 * 12 Noon - 1 p.m. Rallies

• Alta Bates Summit, Oakland campus - 350 Hawthorne, Oakland
• California Pacific Medical Center - 3700 California St., San Francisco
• Marin General Hospital - 250 Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae
• San Leandro Hospital - 13855 East 14th St., San Leandro
• Sutter Solano - 300 Hospital Dr., Vallejo

[pickledpepperRN]

Sutter RNs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKpOzkNQzlI

[Faeriewand]

LOL with the title I thought this was an article about Sutter's Mill.

[pickledpepperRN]

News coverage during the strike.

The hospital claims they tried but couldn't find enough nurses to meet the minimum required by law. But they somehow found nurses to staff the hospital during the strike.

http://www.ktvu.com/video/14314884/index.html?taf=fran

Oh, they say they have a free charge nurse and break relief nurses and no double shifts. I think that is for the replacement nurses:

http://www.ktvu.com/video/14315284/index.html

Radio interviews in last 3/4 of this mp3 :
http://bayradio.com/kgo_archives/31200.mp3

[deeDawntee]

Hang in there Bay Area Nurses! My thoughts and prayers are with you!

[pickledpepperRN]

Sutter RNs United for Safe Care: http://www.calnurses.org/

Sutter RNs to Protest Corporate Plans to End Public Review at Eden and Threat to Close San Leandro Hospital
http://www.calnurses.org/media-cente...temID=32343725