If you are eager to break the United Healthcare Workers’ picket line at the Sutter Health hospitals, you might want to think twice, given the priorities of the scabspeople working there:
Three hospital workers hired to replace striking service employees at Sutter Health-owned hospitals were detained by the police for allegedly stealing Viagra.Still, this has to be a one-time thing, right? It’s hard to believe that even a company as venal as Sutter would staff its hospitals with half-trained, possibly-criminal workers, isn’t it?According to a police report, on Sept. 24 a security guard at California Pacific Medical Center’s Davies campus watched three housekeeping employees, one male and two females, as they removed packages containing more than a dozen Viagra pills from an open cabinet. The male hid the pills on his body and the women threw the packaging into one of their garbage bags. Once caught, the male and one of the females confessed to the crime.
The employees were not arrested, however, because the security employees told the police that they wanted to first confer with the hospital management before pressing charges.
Maybe not.
Since CPMC had to hire close to 600 replacement workers earlier this month to replace the striking workers, “performance issues might surface more visibly,” CPMC media relations manager Christine McMurray said.Sounds like the