CENTRAL COAST REGION, Calif. – On Friday, healthcare workers at six Planned Parenthood California Central Coast clinics have announced they will conduct a two-day strike on June 10 and 11 in response to alleged unfair labor practices and a staffing crisis.
The unanimous decision to authorize a strike at clinics in Thousand Oaks, Ventura, Oxnard, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and San Luis Obispo came earlier this month after nine months of bargaining.
“We don’t want to go on strike, but we feel like we have to,” said Emily Medal, a Clinician at Planned Parenthood Santa Barbara. “We need management to stop bargaining in bad faith so that we can finally address short staffing. Our patients wait for weeks for an appointment, rearrange their whole day, often arranging childcare or missing work, and they can’t even get seen, or are rushed through. That’s not care. That’s a crisis.”…