On Wednesday, nearly 500 technical and professional employees at MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae and 700 members of the California Nurses Association began a 24-hour strike over health care costs and delayed contract negotiations.
When replacement workers were hired on a temporary contract, the hospital told the striking workers not to come to work until 7 a.m. Saturday.
“We are all locked out for an additional two days. This is an outrage,” said Lynn Warner, a nurse and chief representative of the nurses’ association. “The same hospital that complains about our health care cost is paying scabs for three days three times what they pay us.”…