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TOPANGA Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Valley Bureau Homicide is asking for the public’s help to identify a homicide suspect.
The LAPD reported on Monday, February 22, around 11:42 p.m., Topanga Area officers responded to a radio call at West Hills Hospital for a shooting victim. Upon arrival, officers learned the victim was being treated for multiple gunshot wounds. The hospital staff advised officers an unknown male dropped the victim off and left. Officers observed video footage that showed a male driving an older model sedan drop off the victim then drive away.
On Tuesday, February 23, around 12:20 a.m., the victim died from his injuries sustained. The victim has been identified as Tony Dunn, 26, of Northridge.
A nursing strike planned for the holidays was narrowly avoided, with Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of America and Service Employees International Union 121 RN coming to a tentative contract agreement.
Nursing staff at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, West Hills Hospital and Medical Center and Riverside Community Hospital had called a 10-day strike from Dec. 24 to Jan. 3 to protest unfair labor practices, SEIU 121 said.
A win for union members includes Los Robles’ first union contract for licensed health care professionals, made up of 120 pharmacists; clinical laboratory scientists; physical, speech and occupational therapists; social workers; and dieticians. This particular union was formed in December 2019.
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Union nurses and HCA Healthcare reached a tentative contract agreement that members at three Southern California hospitals will vote on Tuesday and Wednesday, effectively averting a 10-day strike planned to start Christmas Eve.
The new contract includes greater transparency and communication on emergency preparedness plans from the hospitals to employees and guarantees the hospitals will provide personal protective equipment as required by state law, according to a statement from Service Employees International Union 121RN. It also stipulates the hiring of dozens of nurses at each hospital to ensure other staff get adequate rest and meal breaks.
If ratified, it will be the first union contract for employees at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. About 120 pharmacists, clinical laboratory scientists, physical, speech and occupational therapists, social workers and dietitians formed their union in December of 2019.
Nurses strike averted at 3 SoCal hospitals after contract deal reached
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) A planned strike by nurses at three Southern California hospitals has been averted after a new deal with reached with the union, hospital officials announced Saturday.
Nurses at Riverside Community Hospital, West Hills Hospital and Medical Center and Los Robles Health System had authorized a 10-day strike starting Christmas Eve, over allegations of unfair labor practices and a failure to protect staff during the coronavirus pandemic.
Now the union, SEIU 121RN, has agreed to a new contract, according to a spokesperson for Healthcare Corp. of America, Far West Division, which operates the three facilities.