Members of Service Employees International Union, Local 399 employed at Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center began their second four-day strike in three weeks yesterday (see WIT for May 28, 2002). Nurses, therapists and technicians, some of whom have been working at the hospital for over two decades, cited dangerously low staffing levels as the primary factor in their decision to strike. The union has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board over the hospital?s suspension of seventeen nurses who called in sick the day before last month?s four-day strike.
See "Hospital Workers Launch 4-Day Strike", NERISSA PACIO, Los Angeles Times, June 18, 2002