Nurse walkout 'is a go'

[billyoc]

POMONA - Another attempt to reach a contract agreement with Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center has failed, and nurses expect to begin a five-day walkout Wednesday.

"It is a go," said Sue Weinstein, executive director of the Service Employees International Union, Local 121RN, after union and hospital leaders met with a mediator last week.

But despite the union's agreement to essentially drop free family health care from its contract offer, Weinstein said the hospital would not budge.

"The nurses made some compromises, but the hospital said no," she said.

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1. We have GM workers,

Pomona Nurses and SF Security Guards on strike. It is a sign of the times. Back in the early to mid 1900s, before labor laws gained a foothold in the US, strikes and work stoppages were an almost daily event. It seems that poor wages and harsh working conditions leads to more and more strikes, work stoppages and productivity losses due to labor unrest. Who would have thunk it?