Union board members say their contract expired five months ago.
For the first time, nearly 4,000 nurses at Santa Clara County hospitals will strike starting Tuesday morning. Nurses are planning a 3-day strike which they say is about patient safety and unfair labor practices. Now they say patient safety, workplace violence and staffing ratios led them to the first nursing strike in Santa Clara County history."Santa Clara County is the 2nd largest county in California. Almost 4,000 nurses are here, and we need some change.
"Some of them are spinal cord injury ICUs. That’s a different technique for turning a patient than it is at the ICU that I’m familiar with. I’m not saying I can’t do it, but I would need the proper training," said Tol. RNPA board members say county nurses have been working without a contract since late October of last year. Santa Clara County says most nurses received a 13.3% raise just last year, and that moving nurses to different locations is a temporary solution.
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