Nurses participate in a one-day strike at a hospital in Burlingame, CA, on December 22nd 2011. The strike affects 2,000 Registered Nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Miller Children’s Hospital in Long Beach, and 4,000 Registered Nurses who work at nine Bay Area facilities that are part of the Sutter Health Corporation. The nurses are protesting what they call unsafe nurse to patient staffing ratios and increases in their health care premiums. |
