"Nurses at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks continued their seven-month contract fight by rejecting an agreement reached by bargaining teams representing Los Robles and the nurses union," reports Tom Kisken in the Ventura County Star.

After voting down the tentative agreement, Los Robles nurses are now fighting for a contract with stronger language to prevent the hospital from putting nurses out of ratio, and putting patients lives at risk.

“From the outset of negotiations, nurses have sounded the alarm about unsafe assignments that put their patients at risk and produce enormous stress,” said SEIU 121RN Executive Director Rosanna Mendez.

Read the story at the VC Star.