Long Beach Memorial Picketed by Striking Nurses and Union Allies
More than 1,000 nurses from Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, supported by allies from the Teamsters and other unions, held a daylong strike Thursday for better staffing, pay and pensions. Another one-day strike was held Oct. 23.
The hospital bused in replacement nurses to provide patient care while pickets chanted and waved signs outside.
The daylong strikes have been the largest job actions at a California hospital in more than four years, and they come as nurses statewide are taking tough negotiating stances in response to changes in the health-care industry in the last decade.
Hundreds of registered nurses represented by the California Nurses Assn. are expected to converge on downtown Los Angeles today for a public hearing on California’s new staffing ratios to provide more nurses.
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