The California Nurses Association filed a class-action lawsuit against Sacramento-based Sutter Health and the company's California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, alleging that hospital managers refused to hire Filipino nurses.
Three former managers at California Pacific Medical Center, which also operates St. Luke's Hospital, submitted statements to the commission alleging that between 2007 and 2009, supervisors told them not to hire Filipino nurses.
The union also submitted records showing that the percentage of Filipino nurses at the hospital dropped from 65% to 10% in 2008.


