Health care workers at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center in San Gabriel, California, and Whittier Hospital Medical Center in Whittier, California, voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract on October 29 and 30, winning protections to improve patient safety and staff retention.

Registered nurses who work at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital, in San Jose, Calif., will hold a rally on Wednesday, Oct. 30 to protest management’s failure to address chronic short-staffing and lack of meal and break relief.

Registered nurses at Alameda and San Leandro Hospitals in the East Bay will hold an informational picket at San Leandro Hospital on Oct. 30, 2024, to highlight a number of significant patient safety concerns that Alameda Health Systems (AHS) has failed to meaningfully address during contract bargaining.

Nurses at Dignity Health St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino, California will hold an informational picket on Tuesday, October 29 to protest management’s refusal to address chronic understaffing impacting patient safety. The lack of investment in staffing from CommonSpirit Health, the owners and operators of St. Bernardine Medical Center, is leading to high turnover rates in a hospital that already suffered from inadequate staffing during the Covid-19 pandemic.