Senator Yee Supports Nurses Strike in SF and Burlingame
California Political Desk
October 10, 2007
Yee, Nurses Call on Sutter Health to Protect Patient Care
SAN FRANCISCO/BURLINGAME – In an effort to improve patient care standards, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) joined thousands of registered nurses (RN) today at St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco as part of a two-day strike at fifteen Northern California hospitals, beginning the state’s largest strike of RNs in a decade. All but two of the hospitals are part of the Sutter Health chain and include some of the largest hospitals in the Bay Area.
On Friday at 7:00 AM, Senator Yee will also join nurses at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame (1501 Trousdale Drive), as they end their strike and return to work. At some of the Sutter hospitals, management has threatened to prolong the dispute with a lockout of nurses for up to an additional three days after the strike ends.
I am proud to stand strong with California Nurses,” said Senator Yee. “In order to protect patients, significant improvements are needed at these hospitals. Sutter needs to start walking the walk by treating nurses and patients with the respect and dignity they deserve.”
The strike is an effort to call for patient care protections at Sutter hospitals and bring attention to reductions in healthcare coverage and retirement security for Sutter RNs, as well as a Sutter proposal to eliminate essential patient care services in Bay Area communities.
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CAN/NNOC), which represents the RNs, said it hopes Sutter corporate executives will finally get the message from their caregivers that significant improvements are needed.
Sutter RNs have made a choice. They are dedicated to improving patient care conditions and they have decided to step up and protect their communities,” said CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro. “Their commitment is about their patients and advocacy for those patients and protecting the community health. Sutter should work with the nurses and CNA to turn this healthcare system around.”
Sutter hospitals affected by the strike are Alta Bates Summit Medical Center with hospitals in Berkeley and Oakland, Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Burlingame and San Mateo, California Pacific Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, San Leandro Hospital, Sutter Delta in Antioch, Sutter Solano in Vallejo, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, Sutter Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, and Sutter Novato.
RNs at two Fremont-Rideout Health Group hospitals, Fremont Medical Center in Yuba City and Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville are also on strike.
The strike will run until 7 a.m. on Friday, October 12.
SAN FRANCISCO/BURLINGAME – In an effort to improve patient care standards, Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) joined thousands of registered nurses (RN) today at St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco as part of a two-day strike at fifteen Northern California hospitals, beginning the state’s largest strike of RNs in a decade. All but two of the hospitals are part of the Sutter Health chain and include some of the largest hospitals in the Bay Area.
On Friday at 7:00 AM, Senator Yee will also join nurses at Mills-Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame (1501 Trousdale Drive), as they end their strike and return to work. At some of the Sutter hospitals, management has threatened to prolong the dispute with a lockout of nurses for up to an additional three days after the strike ends.
I am proud to stand strong with California Nurses,” said Senator Yee. “In order to protect patients, significant improvements are needed at these hospitals. Sutter needs to start walking the walk by treating nurses and patients with the respect and dignity they deserve.”
The strike is an effort to call for patient care protections at Sutter hospitals and bring attention to reductions in healthcare coverage and retirement security for Sutter RNs, as well as a Sutter proposal to eliminate essential patient care services in Bay Area communities.
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CAN/NNOC), which represents the RNs, said it hopes Sutter corporate executives will finally get the message from their caregivers that significant improvements are needed.
Sutter RNs have made a choice. They are dedicated to improving patient care conditions and they have decided to step up and protect their communities,” said CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro. “Their commitment is about their patients and advocacy for those patients and protecting the community health. Sutter should work with the nurses and CNA to turn this healthcare system around.”
Sutter hospitals affected by the strike are Alta Bates Summit Medical Center with hospitals in Berkeley and Oakland, Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Burlingame and San Mateo, California Pacific Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, San Leandro Hospital, Sutter Delta in Antioch, Sutter Solano in Vallejo, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, Sutter Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, and Sutter Novato.
RNs at two Fremont-Rideout Health Group hospitals, Fremont Medical Center in Yuba City and Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville are also on strike.
The strike will run until 7 a.m. on Friday, October 12.
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