For the tenth consecutive week, Kaiser Permanente mental health care workers picketed Southern California medical centers, demanding better wages and staffing changes. The open-ended strike, which began on October 21, is the longest in recent memory, causing financial strain for both workers and Kaiser.
Picketers hold a protest in reference to mental health worker pension and wage issues outside of Kaiser San Diego Medical Center in Kearny Mesa on Monday , Dec. 23, 2024 For the tenth straight week, Kaiser Permanente mental health care workers picketed Southern California medical centers Monday, preparing to take a few days off for the Christmas holiday before returning to their vigil Thursday.
While union officials did not confirm that figure during a news conference Monday morning, Sal Rosselli, NUHW’s president emeritus, said that the financial hardship of staying on the picket line for more than two months has brought some back to their jobs. Among them was Olivia Aguirre, a licensed marriage and family therapist and NUHW bargaining unit member who said she has worked for Kaiser for nine years.
She said she has personally seen too many patients wait too long for care, a statement which the state seemed to reinforce in 2023 when itafter finding “deficiencies in the plan’s provision of behavioral health care services to enrollees including issues identified in providing timely access to care, oversight of the plan’s providers and medical groups, network adequacy, conformity to mental health parity, and grievances and appeals, among many other issues.
But the union worked to push back against the assertion that the organization has been able to hold the fort during the strike.
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