“Open-ended” strike by members of a coalition of nurses’ unions began at 7am today at more than two dozen hospitals and hundreds of clinics, including San Jose, in California and Hawaii citing unfair labor practices, staffing shortages and salary disputes.
Kaiser Permanente responded to the strike threat by proposing a solution to move forward with contract negotiations, which if successful, could avert a strike. The strike could impact care at 20 hospitals and 200 clinics.
The unions and Kaiser Permanente are close on a four-year total – 21.5% offered by Kaiser compared to 25% sought over four years by the unions. But the unions want nearly half of those increases – 12% – to occur in the first year.
In the 1960s the San Jose State grad predicted the rapid advances in computer chip technology, which became known as the iconic Moore's Law, charting a course for the age of high tech.
Karen Stitt was last seen by her teenage boyfriend walking at night toward a Sunnyvale bus stop between El Camino Real and Wolfe Road, in early September 1982. Her body was found 100 yards away.
