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By Doug Cunningham

At nine hospitals in Florida and California on Tuesday nurses and hospital workers represented by the California Nurses Association and SEIU protested the Tenet corporation’s cutting of sick leave.

Health care workers will need their sick leave if the H1N1 flu virus strikes hard in coming months. Sherri Stoddard is an RN with the CNA in San Luis Obispo.

[Stoddard]: “You want your nurses to be able to take their sick leave and not come to work sick. We want to be able to protect our patients and we want to come to work well. And you know, healthy nurses, healthy patients.We're trying to make the patients and the local publics aware of what's going on. They're usually pretty supportive of their health care workers. Throughout these different facilities we're making the public aware and asking the public to actually call to encourage Tenet to give us back the cuts that they have made."