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Still faced with what they have characterized as management stonewalling in contract talks, 1,300 registered nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center are planning to hold a one-day walkout this Thursday, exactly three weeks after holding the largest California nurses' walkout in four years (see WIT for Oct. 23, 2002). Hospital administrators responded to that one-day walkout by the California Nurses Association members, by hiring replacement workers and locking the nurses out for an additional four days---a move that the hospital is once again planning to take. Five other unions are planning to join the nurses on the picket line this week, including the Electrical Workers (IBEW), Longshoremen and Warehousemen (ILWU), and members of Teamsters Joint Council 42---which is boycotting the hospital for failing to negotiate fairly with the nurses.