More than 4,500 nurses at Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health in Northern California voted on Friday to authorize a strike, capping off dozens of negotiating sessions that have stretched on for 13 weeks, including this past week when the healthcare workers completed their jobs without any contract in place. The nurses’ union, the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) said that out of its 5,000 members, 93% voted in favor of going on strike to combat management’s insistence that nurses work with inadequate resources and staff support, all while being forced to pick up extra shifts and having their benefits cut.
— source commondreams.org | Apr 8, 2022