Workers gather outside San Diego Medical Center as part of Southern California labor action
Workers gathered outside Kaiser hospitals in San Diego and Los Angeles counties Monday morning, launching what is to be an “open-ended” strike of Kaiser mental health care workers throughout Southern California.
Kaiser said in a statement Monday morning that its “members will continue to have timely access to individual therapy appointments during the strike,” but it is unclear exactly how the health care giant will make good on that promise, given that so many of its regular mental health care workers will be walking picket lines.
The union says that Kaiser struggles to retain mental health care workers, even though it has increased hiring, and is pushing for these workers to be awarded pensions in addition to better pay and more administrative time to handle the paperwork that comes with documenting health care provided to patients during appointments.
“These six hours are in addition to two hours set aside for meetings and another five hours of administrative time that is already built into appointment schedules,” Kaiser’s statement says. “In contrast, the union’s proposal could result in a full-time therapist spending nearly half of their time — more than 19 hours a week — not seeing patients.”
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