Long Beach Nurses Vote to Join Union
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Registered nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center voted to join the California Nurses Assn., 21 months after rejecting the same union. More than 1,300 nurses are involved.
The CNA has more than doubled its membership in five years and represents close to 40,000 nurses. The same nurses narrowly rejected the union in February 2000 after a bitterly contested campaign.
Patty Burress, a respiratory nurse, said the main issue in the campaign was nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
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