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Article: Nurses in Escondido, Poway, Calif., Want Union Vote.
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- North County Times (Escondido, CA)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2002
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Byline: Gig Conaughton
Jan. 15--POWAY, Calif.--In a meeting that featured jeers, complaints of poor pay and a shortage of hospital supplies, pro-union nurses angrily accused Palomar Pomerado Health leaders Monday night of purposely stonewalling their petition to conduct a vote asking nurses to unionize.
Nurses from the district's two hospitals, Escondido's 328-bed Palomar Medical Center and Poway's 107-bed Pomerado Hospital, gathered at Monday's board meeting at Pomerado Hospital to demand district administrators "stop delaying" the nurses' request to hold a union vote.
But during their presentations, nurses who spoke also complained of low ...