Overview
- About 1,800 registered nurses began a planned 24-hour walkout at 7 a.m. Thursday across Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris, USC Arcadia, and USC Verdugo Hills.
- The union reports more than 10,000 missed meal breaks and roughly 4,000 missed rest breaks in 2024, with shortfalls continuing this year.
- Keck Medicine says hospitals and clinics remain open and fully staffed, citing compliance with state staffing ratios and a proposal to add resource nurses.
- Union representatives say Keck negotiators declined to meet after receiving the strike notice 10 days earlier.
- Nurses plan to return to work Friday as contract talks continue without an agreement.