Joining over 110,000 nurses nationwide, including 35,000 in California, registered nurses at a Los Angeles hospital voted last week to join the Service Employees International Union. Like many of the nurses across the country who have unionized, the nurses at the Northridge Hospital Medical Center are primarily concerned with the dangerous understaffing of their hospital that they feel jeopardizes their patients. As the nurses and their representatives prepare to negotiate a first contract, hospital officials have said they intend to cooperate with the nurses and SEIU.
See "Hospital's Nurses to Join Union", ERIN PARK, Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2001