UCSF nurses and doctors protested Wednesday morning outside the UC regents meeting in San Francisco over what they say are inadequate staffing levels leading to a “boarding crisis” at UCSF’s Parnassus emergency department.
Several dozen members of two unions representing UCSF healthcare workers — the California Nurses Association and the Committee on Interns and Residents/SEIU — gathered at 8 a.m. at the UCSF Rutter Center in Mission Bay, where the regents were scheduled to hold the second day of their two-day bimonthly meeting, organizers said. Supporting the protest were members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the university’s largest workers union, and University Professional & Technical Employees, a union representing UC’s technical workers.
According to labor representative Kaylah May, the unions planned to rally at 9 a.m. after the public comment period during the regents’ meeting…