Thousands of registered nurses and other healthcare workers at Sharp Healthcare are set to strike on Wednesday, calling for better pay, improved sick leave policies and adequate staffing to ensure patient safety.

Members of the Sharp Professional Nurses Network and Sharp Chula Vista health care professionals voted in favor of authorizing a strike earlier in November.

"Our members have told us their most important items are wages and sick time, and retiree medical benefits," Andrea Muir, the president of the Sharp Professional Nurses Network, told NBC 7 in early November.

Muir said their contract proposal includes pay increases of around 7% in the year following ratification, plus $1.25 per hour; then, for the second and third year of the contract, 5% raises plus $1 per hour; then, in th

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