The Registered Nurses Professional Association rejected a mediator’s proposal the same day it announced a three-day strike at Santa Clara County healthcare facilities, beginning Tuesday, April 2.

The Registered Nurses Professional Association said 97% of its members – whose contract expired Oct. 29 – voted to authorize a strike if no agreement is reached on union demands for better working conditions, pay raises and improved benefits.

Public employee unions said the county should add, not cut, money for frontline workers in its social services, health, sheriff, behavioral health, registrar, assessor and planning departments.

Now is the time for hospitals to protect nurses so that they can continue to provide this work—work that puts them on the front lines of a pandemic.

The Registered Nurses Professional Association says the county is falling short in its response to the ongoing surge in Covid-19.

Unions say the county assigned members to nursing homes with “false assurances” that they would only treat non-COVID patients.

The Registered Nurses Professional Association says the deal will close the pay gap between county and private health facilities.

The Registered Nurses Professional Association, which represents 3,000 county employees, was poised to start the new year with a strike.

Two unions repping nurses in the expanded county-run hospital system are at odds over differing interpretations of a labor-relations law.

Tensions between the county and a local nurses union hit a flash point today, when the union called a one-day strike at two local hospitals.

There will be no court hearing of a request by AG Xavier Becerra's motion to block the sale of the two local hospitals.

New labor conflicts have intensified an already boiling controversy over Santa Clara county’s purchase of two failing hospitals.

County officials pledged that its bid to buy St. Louise and O’Connor hospitals will not negatively affect services offered at the facilities.