The clock is ticking on a three-day walkout that would start at 6 a.m. on Wednesday.
As she drove out of the Kaiser Permanente in Woodland Hills, one woman said, "I just came to visit friends."Over the weekend, Kaiser's union members have been practicing their picketing, marching around their union hall, and exercising what to do if there is a real strike.
Saldana said the talks up in San Francisco are continuing and "they are bargaining with them right now". In a statement Kaiser's Management said, "Despite the acute shortage of health care workers nationally, we have been able to hire more than 50,000 frontline employees in the last two years."
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