An estimated 75,000 Kaiser workers were taking part in the strike, according to the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.
SAN DIEGO - Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers in Southern California and beyond returned to the picket lines Friday, the third day of a planned three-day strike the union representing the workers calls the largest of its type in U.S. history.
"At issue, health care workers say, are a series of unfair labor practices related to bargaining in bad faith, along with simmering staff concerns related to unsafe staffing levels that can lead to dangerously long wait times, mistaken diagnosis, and neglect," according to a statement from the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions."After years of the COVID pandemic and chronic understaffing, Kaiser healthcare workers are calling on management to provide safe staffing levels.
Kaiser officials said the marathon bargaining sessions did result in a"number of tentative agreements," and they insisted the health care system's latest offers address the union's demands. Kaiser officials said the company is offering: "In total over the past two years, Kaiser Permanente has hired more than 50,000 people to join our teams," according to the company.
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