Nearly 500 technical and professional employees at MarinHealth Medical Center have announced their intent to strike next week, along with 700 members of the California Nurses Association. The groups cite concerns over rising health care costs and what they describe as months of bad faith bargaining by hospital management.

The 24-hour unfair labor practice strike, organized by Teamsters Local 856, is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. on Feb. 18 and would involve workers ranging from respiratory therapists and emergency department technicians to environmental services and food service staff. Like the nurses, their contract expired June 30, and they have been in contract negotiations for nearly a year.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.