Nurses' Strike: Patient's Death Raises the Stakes of Hospital Labor Conflict

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September 26, 2011

california nurse association, strike, reporting on healthNursing Strike: The medical error-related death of a 66-year-old patient during a nurses' strike at a Oakland, Calif. hospital has inflamed passions on both sides of the labor conflict, Sean Maher and Jeanine Benca report for the San Jose Mercury News.

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