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"Nurses overwhelmingly voted to go out
on strike because we see no other option left
for us and our patients," said Amy Erb, RN,
who works in critical care at California
Pacific Medical Center. "We have tried
repeatedly to address the chronic and wide-
spread problem of short staffing that causes
delays in care and potentially puts patients
at risk, but hospital administrators continue
to ignore us. We have a moral and legal obli-
gation to advocate for our patients. We
advocate for them at the bedside, at the bar-
gaining table, and if we have to, on the strike
line."
—Rachel Berger
