San Francisco hospital workers strike over contract

Over 200 striking health care workers, their families and supporters rallied on Oct. 5 at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco along with Rev. Jesse Jackson and other notables. Virtually all the people who keep the hospital running, outside of management, doctors and RNs, have gone on strike there and at two other Sutter Health Plan-owned hospitals. They charge the management with bad faith bargaining and are demanding a contract. The workers are members of the Service Employees union.

—Story and photo by J. Marquardt