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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Celtic Rose on September 21, 2011, 08:32:51 AM

Title: Thousands Of Northern California Nurses To Strike On Thursday
Post by: Celtic Rose on September 21, 2011, 08:32:51 AM

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Thousands of nurses plan to walk off the job Thursday in what’s being called the nation’s largest nurse strike ever.

More than 23,000 nurses at 30 Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente hospitals in northern California plan to walk out for one day.

Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United are staging the strike saying “they will not accept attacks on RN rights to speak out for patients or cuts in healthcare or retiree coverage for nurses or other hospital workers.”

More at the Link (http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/09/20/thousands-of-northern-california-nurses-to-strike-on-thursday/)

So, don't get sick in Northern California tomorrow.  When I was talking to a nurse about the strike a few days ago, she said that some hospitals are going to start requiring the nurses to contribute to their medical insurance and they are going to raise co-pay rates.  She told me that right now, she pays nothing for her medical insurance and she has a co pay of $5.