Workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland Extend Strike Into Second Week

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Chanting “No contract, no peace,” roughly 100 health care workers held the picket line outside UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland on Monday, the sixth day of an open-ended strike over what they call an illegal plan to rip up their union contracts and slash take-home pay.

The nursing assistants, medical technicians, cooks and other workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers walked off the job last Wednesday in response to an “integration” proposal from UCSF, announced in January, to rehire most of them as University of California employees beginning next month. They are currently employed directly by the hospital.

As a result of the plan, many workers at the hospital and satellite clinics across the East Bay would be transferred to public sector unions that represent UC employees and work under new contracts that would require them to pay an average of $10,000 a year more toward health and retirement benefits, the union said…

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