Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees plan to strike as time runs short to reach contract agreements with the healthcare giant.
employees in California and elsewhere plan to go on strike in early October after the healthcare giant and unions that represent a huge swath of the Kaiser workforce failed to reach an agreement this week that resolves concerns about pay, staffing and other issues.announced Friday that a three-day strike could begin Oct. 4 to protest Kaiser’s “bad faith bargaining” over solutions to what it calls a “staffing crisis” that puts patient safety at risk.
“Kaiser executives refuse to acknowledge how much patient care has deteriorated or how much the frontline healthcare workforce and patients are suffering because of the Kaiser short-staffing crisis,” Dave Regan, president ofKaiser Permanente did not immediately provide comment on the Friday announcement.
The strike would affect Kaiser facilities in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C., according to the coalition, which includes members of four international unions. Hospitals and clinics would be deprived of a range or workers represented by multiple unions, including medical assistants, information technology workers, surgical technicians, social workers, food service workers and housekeepers.
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