The union representing doctors and psychiatrists working in California correctional facilities said that 91% of voting members authorized a strike Monday. Some of California’s highest-paid public employees are in an intensifying labor battle with the Newsom administration over staffing shortages at state prisons and hospitals that workers say endanger patients and staff.
Now, their union says it’s ready to strike over pay even as the state faces a steep budget deficit.
Almost half of the jobs for doctors and psychiatrists in California prisons are unfilled.
