St. Rose Hospital nurses plan informational picket to demand fair contract

Nurses say no to two-tiered patient care

Nurses at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif., will hold an informational picket to demonstrate mounting opposition among staff and community to stalling in contract negotiations with Alameda Health System (AHS), the hospital's operator. Nurses and patients are particularly outraged about St. Rose management attempting to sub-contract out of the fifth floor at the hospital to Stanford Medicine, potentially creating two tiers of health care for patients in Hayward.

Who: RNs from St. Rose Hospital
What: Picket for a fair contract and against two-tier health care at St. Rose Hospital
When: Thursday, June 25, 2-4 p.m.
Where: St. Rose Hospital 27200, Calaroga Ave., Hayward, Calif.

"Management has stalled negotiations and blamed missing federal funds," said Amanda Saad, RN and charge nurse in the emergency department with 20 years of experience at St. Rose. "It's on our local administrators and elected officials to find a way to preserve patient care and save our health system while maintaining a high quality of patient care for the most vulnerable in the Hayward community. We're demanding nothing less."

Registered nurses at St. Rose Hospital are calling on management to end plans to contract out the fifth floor of the hospital to Stanford Medicine, raising concerns that this move could create two tiers of health care within the hospital, exacerbating existing barriers to care for lower-income patients.

Nurses are also upset about management's refusal to respond to nurses' contract proposals that would protect staff from workplace violence and improve staff recruitment and retention, measures that would bring St. Rose in line with other facilities in the Bay Area and in AHS.

St. Rose is a safety net hospital and the only hospital in Hayward. CNA represents approximately 180 registered nurses at St. Rose Hospital, where RNs have been in contract negotiations since January 2026.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with more than 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and more than 225,000 RNs nationwide.