An impending strike at the University of California hospital system adds to a growing list of high-profile work stoppages among healthcare employees faced with a tightening labor market and rising consumer costs.
About 42,000 workers organized with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 are set to walk off the job May 14 in an unfair labor practice strike across all 10 University of California campuses. Roughly 30,000 of them work at medical centers, laboratories, and other health facilities across the UC hospital system, the union said.
It would be the latest in a series of …