While UHW tries to improve staffing and patient care, Sutter hired Healthcare Contingency Staffing Services (HCSS) when it locked out nurses and caregivers last winter. HCSS provides nursing staff during labor disputes to hospitals. Gary Fanger, the incorporator of HCSS, reported on scab.org that he was responsible for recruiting scabs for Sutter.
Gary Fanger has a criminal record and a history of failing to pay child support. Check out the San Francisco Bay Guardian's September 2005 article about Gary Fanger.
Then take a more detailed look at what HCSS, Gary Fanger and his other businesses have been up to:
CIIC vs HCSS 5-12-04
The Commerce and Industry Insurance Company of New York sues HCSS for allegedly failing to pay $837,422 that it owed through contracts for insurance.
Great West vs TNI 5-16-03
Great West Life & Annuity Insurance Company Sues Travel Nurse International, the company founded and once run by Fanger, over payments that it claims the staffing company still owes.
Niche vs TNI 5-21-02
Niche Publishing Inc. sues Travel Nurse International for allegedly failing to pay a $12,000 debt it incurred over the four years it did business with Niche.
Chavez vs TNI 2-15-02
A former employee of Travel Nurse International filed a lawsuit alleging that the agency willfully failed to send him his last paycheck.
Chavez Demand for Payment 1-29-02
A letter from the lawyer of Christopher Chavez, a former employee of Travel Nurse International, demanding his last paycheck, which TNI refused to pay.
Sheraton vs HCSS et al 10-24-01
Sheraton Providence Airport Hotel and Starwood Hotels sues Gary Fanger and his two companies HCSS and Travel Nurse International for allegedly failing to pay the $120,000 bill they racked up housing scab nurses.
USN vs Fanger 5-26-00
U.S. Nursing Corporation sues Fanger for allegedly stealing confidential lists of nurses and trade secrets of the scab industry when he worked for USN.
SF tax liens
Tax Liens placed against Fanger and his businesses by the City and County of San Francisco.
Marin County tax liens
Tax Liens placed against Fanger and his businesses by Marin County.
IRS tax liens
Tax Liens placed against Fanger and his businesses by the federal government. Fanger appears to still owe $147,000 in taxes to the federal government. No releases have been filed for these liens, placed against HCSS in 2002.
Replacement workers arrested for stealing from hospital. Arrested scab workers were supplied by strikebreaking company Modern Industrial Services, Inc.
