The nursing strike in Minnesota is very much on the minds of nurses on the Coast. The California Nurses Association had hoped to stage a one-day walkout at University of California medical centers and two smaller southern California hospitals, but a judge on Tuesday issued a restraining order against it. Nurses plan to rally anyway at 7:30 a.m. and noon Pacific time. Here's how the union describes it:
The numbers would have been similar to the Minnesota strike, with an estimated 12,000 union workers planning to walk off the job to protest what they describe as dangerously unsafe staffing levels. But there's at least one big difference: California already has a nurse staffing ratio sought by Minnesota nurses. Here's how one official at the University of California reacted to the judge's decision, according to the Los Angeles Times.
