As Minnesota prepares itself for the “nursing strike of the century”, scheduled to take place for at least 1 day tomorrow; that other looming strike in California appears to be halted. A San Francisco judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the walkout.

Nurses represented by the California Nurses Association planned to join 12,000 Minnesota nurses in the one-day walkout that, even without the California nurses, would still be the largest registered nursing strike in U.S. history. Nurses from both states who are part of a larger union called National Nurses United say staffing issues – not wages – are at the heart of the disputes.

The California nurses are employees of five Univ. Of Ca. medical centers. The holdup appears to be technical matters in preventing the strike from going forward tomorrow. | LINK

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