CPMC's battle with its nurses continues

Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 4, 2010 CPMC has long sought to build this Cathedral Hill hospital at the corner of Van Ness Avenue and Geary Boulevard. Against the backdrop of plans by Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center to build a new hospital on Cathedral Hill and rebuild its seismically vulnerable Saint Luke’s Hospital, CPMC has been at a contract-negotiating impasse with its nurses union for almost three years. This week, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that CPMC “has been failing and refusing to bargain collectively and in good faith,” setting a May 3 hearing before an administrative law judge ... CPMC