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In Face of Hostile Bargaining and Intimidation by Management, Mills-Peninsula to Vote to Authorize Strike

Date:3/3/2008

ing, and we will protect them."

"Sutter engages in 'medical redlining' by attempting to close hospitals because they have a medically underserved patient population. The people who go to St. Luke's Hospital, Sutter Santa Rosa, and San Leandro deserve to be treated the same as patients from fancier areas," said Jane Sandoval, an RN at St. Luke's Hospital.

Patient Care Problems Key to Dispute

The key area of dispute is patient care protections. Sutter has rejected the nurses' proposal for dedicated meal-and-break relief RNs as well as for trained lift teams available 24 hours a day to protect patients from falls and nurses from back injuries. Another important concern is a proposal that all patients are assigned directly to an RN. Sutter RNs are also incensed by the chain's attempt at most facilities to cut back healthcare benefits and attempt to shift cost, premiums, and fees onto the nurses, both those currently working and retirees. Sutter RNs note that other hospitals, such as Kaiser Permanente, in a very competitive market during a nursing shortage, offer much better retirement medical benefits and as a result find it easier to recruit and retain nurses.

Hospitals Affected

Sutter hospitals affected are St. Luke's Hospital and California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, San Leandro Hospital, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley and Oakland, Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Burlingame and San Mateo, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Sutter Delta in Antioch, Sutter Solano in Vallejo, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, Sutter Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, and Sutter Novato.

Representing some 80,000 RNs in all 50 states, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee is the largest and fastest-growing association of direct-care RNs in the nation. Learn more at http://www.calnurses.org

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