Los Robles Regional Medical Center Hospital
UPDATE: Fighting for the change our patients need, and a contract we can count on.
August 12, 2026
When we met with HCA on Tuesday, August 11, your bargaining team was prepared to make strides toward reaching an agreement. On the other hand, management came with nothing substantive. They’ve made proposals that primarily maintain status quo on topics we’ve identified as priorities. HCA has shown little interest in matching our preparedness or productivity.
We have presented proposals on Health and Safety, Staffing, Workload, Floating, and now, Economics.
In contrast, management proposed keeping the same language on 3 articles that are important to us to change and proposed extending the probationary period for new grads.
Our Economic proposals include:
- Annual raises above inflation,
- An additional step increase,
- Increases to differentials and other pay,
- Benefits protection, etc.
These proposals are doable, and grounded in reality.
We need a hospital where Nurses and Licensed Professionals believe they can build a career. Our patients deserve our full and prompt attention. This can only happen through adherence to legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, and with appropriate support staff.
We’re back at the bargaining table on August 25th. Stay tuned…
🎥 WATCH: Solidarity is contagious! SEIU 121RN Bargaining Team members for RCH and Los Robles joined SEIU 1107 members for a massive picket at HCA’s Sunrise Hospital.
When we fight together, we WIN together!
We need to make HCA Execs understand what life is like for Los Robles Nurses and Licensed Medical Professionals—a perspective they’ll never get from the C-suite. We need to tell the hard truths HCA doesn’t want to hear.
““In my nearly 40-year career in the healthcare field, I’ve done many jobs, both inside and outside of the hospital. Since joining the Los Robles ER team, I have always wanted to focus on being a great ER Nurse–one who is there for my patients on their worst day. Unfortunately, understaffing and a lack of resources force my colleagues and I to take on many other roles, including dedicated positions that other staff members are trained for.
On a regular shift, we are often de facto Nurses for Pediatric and Psych patients. We act as Phlebotomists drawing blood for labs, and as Technicians, monitoring EKGs. We move patients around the hospital when Transporters are unavailable or overtasked, and we clean the rooms when there are not enough Housekeepers. There aren’t enough security guards for a campus as large and busy as ours, so we are the ones who prevent agitated patients from harming others (or themselves) after Law Enforcement drops them off and leaves. Each minute we spend performing these duties is one minute less that we have to dedicate to ER patients who need our care.
There is a constant influx of patients, and we’ve become adept at the game of “human Tetris”, moving patients in and finding a place for them when there aren’t enough beds available. Still, I fear that we’re unprepared for a catastrophic event—something HCA’s staffing algorithm can’t predict.
I understand that our hospital is a business, and I want it to thrive. I know that efficiency is part of that calculus. But squeezing Nurses is not efficient—it is just unsafe, for everybody.”
—Greg Jelin, ER, Los Robles Regional Medical Center
