Nicole McLurkin, a health care worker in nuclear medicine at UC Irvine, said the UC’s alleged bad-faith bargaining has impacted staffing shortages in imaging services.

“There’s been times where I scan patients by myself, and what does that entail? That’s someone left alone on a scanner while I’m taking care of another patient,” she said. “Patient safety has been jeopardized, and currently, right now that we’re out striking, patients who need critical services, like PET scans – they’re not being done because we have to be out here fighting for our wages.”