Sutter Health nurses set to strike Monday across Bay Area

Nurses and health care workers at 12 Sutter Health facilities across the Bay Area plan to hold a one-day strike Monday to call for improved workplace health and safety standards.

The strike is expected to include some 8,000 workers at 15 facilities across northern California in total, according to the California Nurses Association.

Sutter Health’s nurses and health care workers have been in contract negotiations with the health care nonprofit since June 2021 and have called on Sutter to increase its nursing staff.

Amy Erb, a critical care nurse at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, said in a statement:

We have a moral and legal obligation to advocate for our patients. … We advocate for them at the bedside, at the bargaining table, and if we have to, on the strike line.”

Workers are expected to picket at the 15 Sutter Health facilities – including those in Oakland, Berkeley, Vallejo, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Castro Valley, Antioch, Burlingame and Novato – between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. and between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.