Nurses plan strike at Mills-Peninsula hospital 12/22/11

What bad kitty?

Of course you were not planning to be a patient on that Thursday anyhow, right?

Contra Costa Times/Inside Bay Area, 12/9/11. "A union representing registered nurses announced Friday it will wage a one-day strike on Dec. 22 against at least six Sutter hospitals in the Bay Area. The California Nurses Association/ National Nurses United said little progress has been made in its negotiations for a new contract since it held a similar one-day walkout in September.

That strike generated heated debate when several of the hospitals locked out striking nurses for five days and a patient at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland died after a replacement nurse reportedly made a medical error. Hospitals affected by the Dec. 22 walkout will include Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland and Berkeley, Sutter Delta in Antioch, Mills-Peninsula hospitals in Burlingame and San Mateo, and Sutter Solano in Vallejo, union leaders said."

Posted by Kathy Meeh