SAN JOSE, Calif. — About 5,000 Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital nurses went on strike Monday morning to demand for hospital officials to reach a new contract, seeking better staffing and mental help support.
The strike marks the first for Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) — the union that represents nurses at Stanford and Packard — in more than 20 years and comes after negotiations with Stanford management stalled after the nurses’ labor contracts, covering about 5,000 nurses, expired Mar. 31. Nurses said that Stanford management failed to agree to terms that would inadequately address staff shortages, support patient care and create sustainable nursing careers.
About 93 percent of eligible nurses authorized the strike, which CRONA will use to set up a picket line and hold a 9 a.m. Monday press conference outside Stanford Hospital along Welch Road at Pasteur Drive, according to a statement from the union.
