The Region - News from Dec. 16, 1985

Nurse-anesthetists have ended a two-week walkout against eight Southern California Kaiser Permanente hospitals, a Kaiser spokeswoman said. The 196 specially trained nurses ratified a two-year contract that includes two raises of 5%. The nurse-anesthetists, who work with anesthesiologists to keep patients sedated during operations, walked out when their contracts expired Dec. 2. The main issue in the strike was not pay, however, but a dispute over the shared use of a break room at the Kaiser Medical Center in Panorama City, said Kaiser spokeswoman Janice Seid, who added that the dispute had been “settled to everyone’s satisfaction.”