Healthcare workers in Castro Valley launch one-day strike
Healthcare workers at Eden Medical Center are on the picket lines. Allie Rasmus reports
CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. - Health care workers at Sutter Health Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley began a one-day strike this morning.
The union representing about 140 respiratory therapists, lab technicians and imaging technicians said workers authorized the strike after negotiations between the union and Sutter Health broke down last month. Both sides had been negotiating for ten months. We re burned out, the last ten months have been brutal and it s getting even worse as we speak, said Maleah Best, a Medical Lab Technician at Eden Medical Center. We want more staff. We want the patients to get the care they need and we don t have the staff to do that.