Health care workers at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch are planning to strike Monday because of understaffing, difficult working conditions, and unfair labor practices, union officials said.
Sutter Delta Medical Center employees say they are worried for patient and staff safety and that conditions are dire in the facility as management ignores their concerns.
“We’re drowning. There’s just not enough staff,” Jennifer Stone, an emergency room technician at Sutter Delta Medical Center, said in a statement. “We can’t give adequate care. We feel like management is ignoring our concerns and is leaving us to fend for ourselves. We can’t do it all anymore.”
Workers say understaffing predated the COVID-19 pandemic due to poor management decisions by the hospital and the pandemic only exacerbated concerns.
Sutter officials were not immediately available to comment on the planned strike.
The strike will begin at 5 a.m. Monday with a walkout at Sutter Delta Medical Center and a speaking program at 11 a.m. The union representing the workers is Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West.
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This looks like another good reason for people in East County to get vaccinated.
Get over it you have a great job and good pay.I’m sure you have good medical coverage and retirement.If you don’t like your job leave.No sympathy from me.I’m sure when you chose your carrier you sad you love to help people the rest is a bonus.
I’m sure when you have to go to the hospital, you’ll appreciate that the few staff who didn’t take your advice and leave, are all overworked, tired, and disgruntled. What could possibly go wrong?
Unfair labor practices = Covid vaccine mandates.
They are probably sick of wasting thei9r efforts and risking their own well-being because of the people not taking the medicine readily available for free.
But let’s threaten the staff with being fired for not getting the vaccine. Idiotic mindset.
That is the mindset of most administrators. They are moronic and cannot understand the most basic of concepts. Instead of having clinical skills, they have their heads up their butts.
Antioch sucks. Olive Garden is in Pittsburg
strike = adult temper tantrum
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.. because patients’ welfare and their well-being is their #1 priority except when it isn’t.
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Government creates a problem….only so they can “solve” it by importing foreign workers as well as using the National Guard.
All planned, but 19 months later and people still cannot figure it out.
On a Positive note: Those Hero Healthcare workers who are about to be out of jobs are at least spilling the beans on what they have witnessed from the jab.
That and they can dance on tictock pretty well now.
@Sam I disagree with 100% of everything you put in here, but that was hella funny
Chicken Little just had surgery on Friday and everyone was so nice and on there game no complaints from me.They sure weren’t under staffed.
That’s a testament to their professionalism that you didn’t even know they were understaffed.
Good for them.
Strike and shut down the Medical Center.
The corrupt management if the medical center not concerned with anyone’s health. It’s all about the money they can get for involvement in the covid scam.
Workers unite.
Turn management and the corruption out.
Find your own Lech Wałęsa
If you’ve ever been to Sutter Delta hospital, you’d know why they’re going on strike. This has nothing to do with the vaccine mandates, this has to do with the environment they work in and the lack of support and staff. They are overworked and overwhelmed.
Go for it. Too bad SEIU/UHW didn’t involve ALL Union supported Health Care Organizations and Care Facilities.
Understaffing is everywhere, Kaiser is just as bad. Management doesn’t care nor does Upper Leadership sitting in there overstuffed chairs as they count the doe they are making. Get rid of the TOP Heavy management and use their “overpaid” salary to hire more of the people that take care of the patients.
@Bub
“Understaffing is everywhere”. That’s just a steaming load of BS.
Not long ago I had to spend 5 hrs with a friend of mine in John Muir’s ER. She had a nasty fall, mild concussion, badly scraped knee and face, nearly knocked out her teeth.
It took 3 requests and 1.5 hrs to get an ice pack for her knee. 2 requests and over an hour to get a cup of water. Another 2 requests and another hour to get 1 ibuprofen. And I myself had to wash the dirt off her knee and face. After asking about it no less than 5 times and finally rummaging about the room and finding sterile gauze and solution.
During this time my friend was seen by no less than 10 people. 3 doctors, 3 or 4 nurses and 3-4 flunkies wheeling her to and from radiology. Total amount of time ANY hospital personnel spent with her? Maybe an hour. And the only people who did any work at all were the doctors.
But in the same 5 hrs we’ve learned a lot about the lives of nurses. We couldn’t help but hear them chatting in the hallway, which is what they spent most of their time on. Such as 1) which gym is better; 2) what kind of a party another nurse has attended; 3) Facebook spats with friends; 4) something else I don’t remember. When you have so many things to discuss, who has the time to attend to patients?
Understaffed my a$$. If anything, they are overstaffed to a point that no work is being done because they always count on someone else doing it.
If they really cared about patients well being, this would not happen.
They should be fired and make way for people that want to work and do a good job regardless…
It seems there has been plenty of space for a while, even without firing any of them, “Workers say understaffing predated the COVID-19 pandemic”.
Firing them would only exasperate the issue.
Yes bring in foreign workers and the national guard, that will help give better care, NOT!
Aunt Barbara, have you EVER walked in a healthcare providers shoes????
Yeah, it’s an all too common defect in people to feign praise for those doing something for you, then to disregard them as chopped liver when you no longer feel they so benefit you.
It’s just one part of why there are so many “useful idiots”.
And I’ll cross the picket line and salute them with 1 finger extended.
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