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Central Coast Planned Parenthood workers vote to strike

May 12, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

Healthcare workers at Planned Parenthood California Central Coast voted to authorize a strike over alleged unfair labor practices and over refusals to address a short-staffing crisis.

The workers overwhelmingly approved the strike with a 100% vote following months of failed negotiations. The workers accuse Planned Parenthood’s management of continued bad-faith bargaining.

As a result, the workers are planning an unfair labor practice strike at six Planned Parenthood California Central Coast locations: San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, and Oxnard. The date or dates of the strike have not yet been determined.

“We work here because we care deeply about our patients and our community. But there’s only so much we can do when we’re constantly understaffed and management refuses to bargain in good faith, ” said Mike Solemar, a physician at Planned Parenthood California Central Coast. “Patients are waiting longer, and sometimes not getting seen at all. We believe in our mission to provide quality reproductive care for anyone who walks through our doors. Enough is enough. We need management to stop the unfair labor practices and listen to the frontline healthcare workers.”

Despite their dedication to the mission of Planned Parenthood, workers argue management refuses to invest in staff. The issues with pay have led to high turnover rates, as experienced caregivers leave for higher-paying, more sustainable jobs, according to workers.

 


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To say all they do is abortions, is ignorant and stupid. They provide medical care for most Americans, the 99 percent of people. Same people who boycott PP also support war, the death penalty, and religious extremism. Opponents of PP are practically terrorists.


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Were not fooled by you .


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Unborn persons are surely celebrating.


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Life begins at first breath. How exactly are unborns celebrating? Like a piñata party for the womb?


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End of life is absence of heartbeat. Why would beginning of life not be measured the same way? Seems logical to me.


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The Abortion pill is killing business. No money means no raises . Maybe, Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) could fill in the shortfall .


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Result? Many lives saved.


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Planned Parenthood provides overall healthcare services on a sliding pay scale, the result of this strike is many lives may be lost. Planed Parenthood is where I get my condoms, something your parents should have done.


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Glad you’re not breeding. Maybe planned parenthood is good for something.


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Affordable health care just got a little less affordable.


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Yes indeed. I wish people could truly wrap their heads around the services that Planned Parenthood offers both women and men, and how many people have been helped and saved by preventative care (GYN exams, mammograms, etc). I understand the debate about their services and the passionate sides. However, as a working adult with good healthcare and someone who has worked in healthcare, the Central Coast is beyond lacking in providing care. Most people still have to wait months and then have to go out of the area, for even more costs, for services. I’ve been on the patient and caregiver side of it. Eliminating places that can fill small gaps isn’t the answer.


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Being short staffed seems like a personnel management issue. Stop the murder of unborn persons to free up those personnel resource assets for reassignment to help care for the living.


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Personnel management and probably more, agreed. What’s your reasoning for all of the other healthcare facilities’ shortages since they can’t “reassign” staff?


A bigger focus should be on the overarching issues that plague healthcare, the failing foster care systems, and the for-profit adoption agencies that eliminate a lot of good families from being able to adopt.


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A win for the innocent unborn!


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My wife would get her prenatal vitamins, and wellness checks there during pregnancy.

Spina Bifida, clef palates, etc. are not a win for the malformed unborn.


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Innocent unborn is an oxymoron according to the Bible as we’re all born sinners. Try reading it sometime.


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Your convoluted reasoning, is convoluted.


The UNBORN are indeed innocent, since…..they have not been born yet. Many of us have, indeed, read the Bible.


   “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27).



Life begins inside the womb and has purpose. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:13-14).





“Before I was born the Lord called me; from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name” (Isa. 49:1).


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