In the largest nurses strike this nation has seen in a decade, 5,000 Sutter Healthcare RNs in California marched out of their facilities this morning, drawing a line in the sand over the quality of care their patients must receive while at the gigantic hospital chain.  Press coverage here and here and here, or really just go look at the pics of these activist nurses.

The strike has already become a resounding success, dominating the media throughout the Bay Area, winning broad community support from different organizations, welcoming some 95% of nurses onto the picket line, and forcing Sutter to explain itself and its practices under a bright spotlight.  

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Thousands of RNs represented by the California Nurses Association will walk off the job October 10 through 12 in a strike against the mammoth Sutter Healthcare Corporation.  This is the largest strike by nurses in this country for at least a decade and the stakes are high.

This Sutter strike affects 5,500 nurses at 16 different facilities.  But it also affects each and every one of us.  Nurses are walking the picket line for the dream of better health care in this country.  Don't take it from me--listen to the striking nurses in their own words in this video.

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