Health care workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland plan to start an open-ended strike Wednesday in response to what their union calls an illegal plan to cancel existing contracts. 

Officials with the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents roughly 1,300 workers, say that UCSF Health’s “Integration Plan” would amount to canceling union contracts and cutting pay at Children’s Hospital Oakland and affiliated clinics across the East Bay.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.