When we fight we win! Nurses’ willingness to take action for their patients, including going on strike for 10 days, was crucial for winning a contract that will improve nurse retention and the quality of care that patients receive. Garfield [...]
The nurses say that they face chronic unsafe staffing due to high turnover that has reached crisis proportions. In addition to turnover, nurses point to substandard equipment and inadequate workplace hazard policies as factors contributing to decreased morale. Nurses point [...]
On August 18, 2023, nurses at Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park went on strike over unsafe staffing, broken and equipment, and inadequate workplace hazard polices. Here is a round-up of media coverage of the strike. KTXL Fox 40: Nurses [...]
We met management again on Friday to negotiate our contract. We wanted to make sure that they left the table understanding one thing: safe staffing matters. A group of your co-workers joined your bargaining team at the table to deliver [...]
As we tallied the results of our strike vote last week one thing was abundantly clear—for their patients, and for their co-workers, Garfield Nurses are prepared to do whatever it takes. To ensure AHMC retains quality Nurses; to ensure those Nurses [...]
Reporting in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on strike votes at Greater El Monte Hospital and Garfield Medical Center, where union Nurses voted overwhelmingly to approve an unfair labor practice strike: "We’re here to save people, not put our own [...]
MONTEREY PARK, CA – Registered nurses represented by the union SEIU 121RN at Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park and Greater El Monte Community Hospital in El Monte voted to authorize strikes late last week. Both hospitals are owned by [...]
For the last several bargaining sessions, management has made it clear that they don't feel like recruitment and retention problems need to be addressed in any meaningful way. We have given them reasonable proposals that would help attract and keep [...]
We came away from the bargaining table on Wednesday more disappointed in AHMC and our management than ever. Your bargaining team has been reasonable every step of the way. We've worked with management. We've thoroughly explained our proposals and made [...]
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