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Nurses Send Sutter A Clear Message
Registered nurses
at all 10 Northern California Sutter Health hospitals currently in
bargaining have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if an agreement
with the hospital chain is not reached, the California Nurses
Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee announced. There has
been no progress in bargaining over the core issues of the contract, which
includes important patient safety concerns, adequate RN staffing, and
protection for nurse healthcare coverage.
RNs at Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Burlingame and San Mateo, San
Leandro Hospital and Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley all voted
Wednesday and Thursday to join their colleagues at Sutter Delta in Antioch,
Sutter Solano in Vallejo, California Pacific Medical Center and St. Luke's
hospitals in San Francisco, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley
and Oakland, Sutter Santa Rosa, Sutter Marin General Hospital and Sutter
Novato Hospital in authorizing a strike.
The votes throughout the system come as a result of proposals that are
inferior to Northern California standards in patient care protections and
sweeping reductions in healthcare coverage for the RNs. CNA/NNOC represents
over 5,000 RNs in 14 Northern California Sutter hospitals.
"In negotiations, Sutter denies that inadequate staffing is an issue at
their facilities, but in these votes nurses have spoken loud and clear,"
said Jan Rodolfo, an RN who works in the cancer unit at Summit, and is a
member of the CNA nurse negotiating team. "No one understands what staffing
we need to provide safe patient care better than bedside nurses."
"It's notable that the same patient care issues and concerns are seen
at all 10 hospitals, which appears to reflect the corporate influence of
the importance of the bottom line at the sacrifice of patient care," said
Genel Morgan, an RN in the cardiac intensive care unit at Mills-Peninsula
Health Services and is a member of the CNA nurse negotiating team.
"RNs take the possibility of a strike very seriously and nurses at 10
Sutter hospitals believe that if conditions don't improve, a strike may be
the only answer," said Eileen Prendiville, an RN who works in the neonatal
intensive care unit at CPMC and is on the CNA nurse negotiating team.
"Sutter must address the issues most important to nurses such as
getting adequate rest in the midst of a 12-hour shift, which is a question
of patient safety. Our Professional Practice Committees have been 'talking'
to management about this issue for several years without resolve -- enough
talk."
A major area of dispute is patient care protections, which the nurses
aim to significantly strengthen. The RNs have proposed including specific
2008 RN-to-patient staffing ratios in their contract to assure compliance
with the state law. Sutter has refused, as they have refused to agree to
capping the number of hours that charge RNs are used for break relief, a
dedicated meal and break relief nurse (especially important given 12-hour
shifts), or a proposal that all patients are assigned directly to a
registered nurse.
Sutter has also rejected the nurses' proposal for trained lift teams
available 24 hours to protect patients from falls and nurses from back
injuries.
Major differences also remain on critical issues such as healthcare for
nurses and retirees. Establishing strong healthcare and retirement
protections is a significant retention and recruitment issue, say Sutter
RNs. They note that other hospitals such as those in the Kaiser chain, in a
very competitive market during a nursing shortage, offer much better
healthcare and retirement medical benefits.
Representing some 75,000 RNs in 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
California Nurses Association
http://www.calnurses.org
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