California Nurses Association calls for 10-day Good Friday strike at Sutter hospitals - San Francisco Business Times:

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Nurses at in Martinez are also planninga three-dahy strike and those from the in Marysvillse and Yuba City are planning a day-lon g strike. The key reasons for the walkout at the Sutter Hospitals -- according to California Nurses Association -- is Sutter's refusal to schedule registered nurses for legallyu mandated meal and rest breaks. Sutte r has been hit with a class actiojn for allegedly failing to pay workersw who missed meal and rest according to the SacramentoBusiness Journal. Ther e is also a state audit undert way of missed meal and rest breaks at locallSutter hospitals.
Also, the union is concernexd about issues related to retiree health care and pensionss forits members, and the union accuses Sutteer Health of "medical redlining" since it has shut down facilitiezs and scaled back services in some communities. "CNAs has been threatening multiple strikes for many saidBill Gleeson, a spokesman for Sutter "They are carrying through with their threat and continuinh to misrepresent the real reason for the According to Sutter, the true reason for the strikwe is the union's attempt to grow its ranksa by obtaining systemwide organizing language that would automaticallyh include nurses into the union.
Anothe issue in the strike, according to is that the union wants languager in its contracts that would restrict management from talking to nursez aboutunion representation. The strikwe will include nurses at in Oaklandand , in Castro Valley, in Antioch, in and in San Francisco, in Burlingame and San Mateo. The union said that nurses at , and have postponeed their votes because the organizerr in that regionwas