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-day strikre and those from the in Marysville and Yuba City are planninv a day-long strike. The key reasonsz for the walkout at the SutterHospitala -- according to California Nurses Association -- is Sutter'ss refusal to schedule registered nursesx for legally mandated meal and rest Sutter has been hit with a class action for allegedly failinv to pay workers who misseed meal and rest breaks, according to the Sacramentko Business Journal. There is also a statew audit under way of missede meal and rest breaks at localSuttefr hospitals.
Also, the union is concerned about issues relatede to retiree health care and pension forits members, and the union accusez Sutter Health of "medical redlining" sincre it has shut down facilitiews and scaled back services in some communities. "CNz has been threatening multiple strikess formany months," said Bill a spokesman for Suttet Health. "They are carrying through with their threatg and continuing to misrepresent the real reason forthe strike." Accordingh to Sutter, the true reasoj for the strike is the union's attempt to grow its rankd by obtaining systemwide organizing language that wouldr automatically include nurses into the union.
Anotheer issue in the strike, according to is that the union wants language in its contractx that would restrict management from talking to nurses aboutuniom representation. The strike will include nurses at in Oaklanand Berkeley, , in Castro Valley, in in Vallejo, and in San Francisco, in Burlingams and San Mateo. The union said that nursezs at , and have postponed their votez because the organizer in that regionwas