US EditionNurses Dig Into Rainy Day Funds to Keep Kaiser Strike Going
Approximately 31,000 nurses and health professionals remain on strike after Kaiser Permanente allegedly ceased bargaining in December, prompting an unfair labor charge.
- On Monday, Jan. 26 the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals launched an open-ended strike, keeping 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and staff off work across California and Hawaii.
- The union says it is striking to win higher pay and staffing changes, shifting demands from 38% to seeking a 25% raise, and filed an unfair labor practice charge.
- Kaiser says its offer includes 21.5% wage increases, and Camille Applin-Jones called it `one of the strongest nursing contract offers in California this year` with roughly 30% total pay gains.
- Union members are cutting back and using savings to sustain picketing as more than 3,000 pharmacy and lab workers threaten to join the strike on Feb. 9.
- Laurel Lucia of UC Berkeley's Labor Center warns the industry faces big changes as Medi‑Cal funding cuts could hurt Kaiser and cause job-loss estimates between 109,000 and 217,000.
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Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses continues, as strike looms for thousands of pharmacy and lab workers
Healthcare workers are being driven into direct confrontation, not only with corporate healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente, but with the entire political and economic framework that subordinates human life to profit, repression and state violence.
Pasadena Star News
Nurses dig into rainy day funds to keep Kaiser strike going
Striking nurses at Kaiser Permanente wrapped up their first week of picketing on Friday — tired but still energized as they wait for a second wave of workers to join them in February. Sarah Rubino, a registered nurse who works at Kaiser’s Irvine Medical Center, joined about 150 others on the picket line at the corner of Sand Canyon Avenue and Alton Parkway. Amid the megaphone chants and horns honking from supporters, she said she’s prepared for …
Tens of thousands of healthcare workers strike across the country
Nurses on the picket line in front of New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in upper Manhattan, as the strike entered it’s 6th day.Credit: Joe Tabacca/Shutterstock. Around 31,000 healthcare workers in California and Hawaii joined the picket line Jan. 26 as the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals and Kaiser Permanente reached an impasse in contract negotiations. This content is for Group 1 - Individual Seat…
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