UCLA Health Care Workers Vote for Strike after Fruitless Wages Talks

Hospital strikes continue...several facilities involved here...BD

Union leaders said Friday that health care workers at University of California medical facilities in the Los Angeles area have voted to authorize a strike.
The 20,000 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees' local branch could walk off their jobs 10 days after the union notifies the UC system, said union President Lakesha Harrison.
Among those who have voted for a strike are radiology, respiratory and operating room technicians and other maintenance workers in the UC health care system, which includes Santa Monica- UCLA Medical Center and four other hospitals plus student health centers. Harrison said UC health care and service workers earn an average of 25 percent less than similar employees at other hospitals, with some being paid as little as 10 U.S. dollars an hour.