Bay Area News

Bay Area News: Nurses waged a strike against Bay Area hospitals in September filed a complaint accusing Sutter Health of violating the labor laws by locking out for days after the strike ended.The lockout controversy increase when a patient at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland died after a nurse made a medical error.

Sutter Health argued that nurses shouldn't have walked out and said it needed to sign 5 to 8 day contracts with firms that brought in hundreds of nurses around the country to be replacement.

But National Nurses United/California Nurses Association challenged that statement in a complaint filed this week with the National Labor Relations Board. Kaiser Permanente noted by the union brought in sufficient replacement nurses who held a one-day sympathy strike, and Kaiser did not lock out nurses after the strike ended.