Nurses and wellness care personnel at 15 Sutter services to maintain one-working day strike for secure staffing and health and safety protections

Far more than 8,000 registered nurses and overall health treatment staff are taking part in the strike.

Nurses and health care employees at 15 services throughout Northern California will maintain a a single-day strike on April 18 to protest Sutter Health’s refusal to handle their proposals about harmless staffing and wellbeing and security protections, announced California Nurses Affiliation (CNA), an affiliate of National Nurses United, and CNA affiliate Caregivers and Healthcare Personnel Union (CHEU) right now.

This see follows practically unanimous strike authorization votes in March. Nurses and well being treatment personnel have presented advance observe to Sutter Well being for the strike. A lot more than 8,000 registered nurses and health care personnel are participating in the strike.

Sutter Well being RNs and overall health treatment staff have been in negotiations because June 2021 for a new agreement, with very little to no movement on essential difficulties. They urge administration to commit in nursing employees and concur to a agreement that gives:

• protected staffing that enables nurses to offer secure and therapeutic care and
• pandemic readiness protections that demand the hospitals to invest in individual protecting products stockpiles and comply with California’s PPE stockpile legislation.

“The Sutter nurses voted for this strike,” claimed Renee Waters, a Trauma Neuro Intensive Care RN with 26 years of knowledge. “We are hanging simply because Sutter is not transparent about the stockpile of PPE provides and call tracing. They resist obtaining nurses right included in organizing and implementation of policies that affect all of us through a pandemic. We have to tackle these difficulties and a lot more. A fair contract is wanted to retain skilled nurses, have enough staffing and training, and be certain we have the resources we want to present harmless and helpful care for our sufferers. Nurses are battling back again from Sutter placing gains before individuals and wellbeing care personnel.”

• Who: Registered nurses and well being care employees at 15 Sutter amenities
• What: One-working day strike for safe and sound staffing and health and fitness and security protections
• When: Monday, April 18, 7 a.m. to Tuesday, April 19, 6:59 a.m. (see picket moments beneath).
• The place: See below for record of amenities and locations

“Nurses overwhelmingly voted to go out on strike since we see no other alternative remaining for us and our people,” reported Amy Erb, RN , who works in Vital Treatment at California Pacific Medical Heart. “We have tried using consistently to tackle the long-term and widespread trouble of small staffing that causes delays in care and likely puts patients at hazard, but medical center directors keep on to ignore us. We have a ethical and legal obligation to advocate for our clients. We advocate for them at the bedside, at the bargaining desk, and if we have to, on the strike line.”

Nurses and well being care staff will be picketing from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the pursuing services:

Alta Bates Summit Health care Heart
Summit Campus
350 Hawthorne Avenue, Oakland, CA 94609

Alta Bates Summit Medical Middle
Ashby Campus
2450 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705

Alta Bates Summit Health-related Center
Herrick Campus
2001 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Sutter Solano Professional medical Center
300 Medical center Push, Vallejo, CA 94589

Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Clinic
30 Mark West Springs Highway, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

Sutter Coastline Healthcare facility
800 East Washington Boulevard, Crescent Town, CA 95531

Sutter Tracy Neighborhood Clinic
1420 N. Tracy Blvd, Tracy, CA 95376

California Pacific Medical Heart
1101 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94109

California Pacific Health-related Heart
3555 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, CA 94110

Santa Cruz VNA
2880 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Eden Professional medical Centre
20103 Lake Chabot Rd., Castro Valley 94546

Sutter Delta Clinical Centre
3901 Lone Tree Way, Antioch, CA 94509

Sutter Auburn Religion Clinic
11815 Schooling Road, Auburn, CA 95661

Sutter Roseville Health-related Heart
1 Health-related Centre Travel, Roseville, CA, 95661

Sutter Lakeside Medical center
5176 Hill Rd. E, Lakeport, CA 95453

Mills-Peninsula Medical Center
1501 Trousdale Generate, Burlingame, CA 94010

Novato Community Medical center
180 Rowland Way, Novato, CA 94945

Sutter Heart for Psychiatry
7700 Folsom Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95826