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On the Picket Line
Mental health clinicians strike across California
By Joel Britton
Vol. 83/No. 1
January 7, 2019
National Union of Healthcare Workers members picket Kaiser’s Los Angeles
Medical Center Dec. 12 during 5-day statewide strike at 33 hospitals for
increased hiring, better patient care.
Militant/Dennis Richter
National Union of Healthcare Workers members picket Kaiser’s Los Angeles
Medical Center Dec. 12 during 5-day statewide strike at 33 hospitals for
increased hiring, better patient care.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Mental health clinicians — members of the National
Union of Healthcare Workers — organized picket lines at 33 Kaiser
facilities across the state during their five-day strike that ended Dec. 14.
They were joined at the Oakland Medical Center and many other picket
sites by registered nurses, members of the California Nurses
Association, who went on a sympathy strike. “Standing in SOLIDARITY with
our sisters and brothers” read the nurses’ picket signs.
The clinicians are demanding more staff and better patient care.
“We must serve patients’ needs, not Kaiser’s greed,” Michele Anders told
the Militant on the picket line. A veteran of many strikes during her 30
years as a nurse and California Nurses Association member, Anders said,
“Mental health services are very important.” She added, “I’m out here to
back their fight.”
National Union of Healthcare Workers member Grace Soghomonian wore a
yellow safety vest to the picket line here to express solidarity with
the massive “yellow vest” movement of workers and rural poor in France.
“I’m a little militant,” she said. “The issues the yellow vests are
confronting in France are very similar to the corporate and government
greed we face.”
On the Picket Line
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