The noise from honking cars on 300 Hospital Drive in Vallejo around noon on Thursday was loud. But to the frontline healthcare workers from Sutter Hospitals and Medical Centers across Northern California, the conditions they’ve been dealing with while working are even more alarming.

For the second time this week workers picketed at Sutter Health Facilities, with Thursday’s gathering in Vallejo. Caregivers held up signs and made plenty of noise while demanding safe staffing, fair pay and investment in underserved communities after learning that the pay of Sutter executives has increased. The employees also are demanding solutions to what they say are chronic short staffing, shuttering of services in underserved areas, and wages that don’t keep up with inflation.

According to these employe

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