11/16: Protest the layoff of all CNA's at a facility in San Pablo

While the layoffs are indeed bad news for the affected workers, what would the SEIU have the hospital do? Does the union leadership believe that money grows on trees? Doctors Medical Center is fighting for it's very existance. Every effort is being made to reduce costs, and unfortunately, this was the decision. You want to find realities complicit in making the hospital business hard to work? Let's talk about insurance companies and their dismal re-imbursements for services billed. Or perhaps about the ever-growing numbers of un or non-insured patients that the facility must still serve. Sometimes one cannot help but get the impression that the local thinks there is money 'o plenty to go around. The picket line, while informational to drivers by, will do nothing to improve the financial realities. The local's all-or-nothing approach will in no way improve the bottom line. Three million dollars in red ink last quarter. Focus on that for a moment. These losses cannot be sustained, and the choices/options forced upon the hospital are not easy; nor good news for the afflicted workers. Constructive thinking on ways to improve the situation would be better time spent. Perhaps someone can think of a way to get the combined Contra Costa refineries and chemical plants to contribute into a fund for keeping the Burn Center open. It's need is clearly shown by the recent accident and injury in Martinez. Though the phrase is shop-worn, some thinking "Outside of the Box" would be of help; not just knee-jerk reactive picketing.

to backstab coworkers, cut shady deals, and cross their picket lines. remember sutter? solidarity goes both ways.

i thought CNA referred to california nurses association. solidarity with SEIU!