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Nurses to Strike St. Mary, Other California Hospitals, Protesting Inadequate Swine Flu Preparations
Monday, October 26, 2009
As President Obama declares swine flu a national emergency and California flu related hospitalizations and deaths increase, several California hospitals, including St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, are facing the prospects of a nursing strike. The 435 registered nurses at St. Mary Medical Center plan a 24 hour strike this Friday, October 30 in conjunction with a labor negotiations impasse.
. St. Mary is one of the 30 Catholic Healthcare West, CHW, hospitals in California which will go on strike from 7:00 am Friday until 7:00am Saturday.
According to a release from The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), the nurses are striking because they believe the hospital chain has not implemented adequate preparations for the swine flu pandemic.
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