Hospitals and Medical Centers

Patient care workers set to start walkout at five UC hospitals

21 May 2013

Respiratory therapists, nursing aides and surgical technicians are striking over staffing, pay and pension reform. Citing safety, a judge rules that about 450 employees cannot take part. Respiratory therapists, nursing aides, surgical technicians and other patient care workers plan to stage a walkout starting Tuesday morning at five University of California medical centers.

Union employees walk off the job at UC hospitals

21 May 2013

Union workers at five University of California medical centers, including the one in San Francisco, began a two-day strike Tuesday morning. Randall Johnson, an MRI technologist at UCSF, said employees were staging the work action over staffing levels, contracting out, pension contributions and other issues. "We've been in negotiations for over a year and there's been no major movement on the ...

Workers start 2-day strike at UC hospitals

21 May 2013

Thousands of health care workers at UC San Diego Medical Center and University of California hospitals across the state began a two-day strike Tuesday, walking picket lines as they push for a new contract.