Picketing at Tacoma General Hospital as MultiCare clinic doctors strike
TACOMA, Wash. - Health care providers at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital are picketing Monday to support a two-day strike by doctors and nurses at MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care clinics.
The strike, set for Monday and Tuesday, was called to protest what health care workers describe as "severely unsafe working conditions" at the MultiCare's Indigo clinics amid the surging coronavirus pandemic.
"MultiCare is placing patient safety at risk by demanding indigo urgent care providers work excessively long and fatiguing shifts and fail to provide N95 masks as providers test hundreds of COVID-19 patients each day," the Union of American of Physicians and Dentists said in a statement supporting the strike.
The union says picketing will take place not only at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital but at several other locations on both days of the strike. The striking providers work at 20 MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care locations in the Puget Sound area.
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