WALKOUTS LEAVE COUNTY HEALTH CARE FEELING ILL.Byline: Joseph Giordono Staff Writer With no contract talks on the fourth day of rolling strikes by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County employees, union officials said Thursday they plan to file an unfair labor practices Conduct prohibited by federal law regulating relations between employers, employees, and labor organizations. Before 1935 U.S. labor unions received little protection from the law. complaint today against county officials. The latest round of walkouts were aimed at the county health care system. According to county officials, 813 of 1,248 health care workers - including 93 percent of the nurses - skipped the day shift at Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. Walkouts by Service Employees International Union, Local 660, personnel and supporting unions also forced closure of several Southeast Cluster Health Centers. Union leaders said they will call a general strike Wednesday if the impasse is not resolved and plan to file a complaint today with the county's Employee Relations Commission. ``The county continues to say they will not negotiate unless we stop striking and that is against the law,'' said Mark Tarnawsky of the SEIU SEIU Service Employees International Union SEIU Special Education Intake Unit SEIU Secondary Education Interdisciplinary Unit SEIU Software Engineering Institute Union . County Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive David Janssen rejected the notion that the county has engaged in unfair bargaining, saying the county has made a fair offer. The county has proposed a 9 percent pay hike over three years. Union members want a 15.5 percent raise. ``There is no change in the status of negotiations,'' Janssen said. ``They have our salary offer, and we are willing to negotiate on some other issues.'' Talks broke off last Friday, a day before the union's three-year contract expired. On Thursday, more than 80 percent of the nurses and more than 50 percent of all employees did not show up for the night shift at King-Drew Medical Center. ``The walkout is definitely impacting our ability to provide services to our patients,'' said John Wallace, county Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
The walkout forced the closure of the outpatient clinics and halted acceptance of new trauma patients. Nursing supervisors, doctors and medical residents worked 16-hour shifts to fill in, Wallace said. The rolling strikes are expected to continue today at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located within the city of Torrance, California, USA. The hospital was founded in 1946, and is funded by Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA serves as the Level I Trauma Center for the South Bay area. and Tuesday at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center Olive View-UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. The hospital was founded on October 27, 1920, and is funded by Los Angeles County [1]. and County-USC Medical Center. |
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