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Health care workers who serve millions of Americans could strike Wednesday if Kaiser Permanente and union workers don't reach an agreement.reported. The union, whose contract expired Saturday, represents medical assistants, surgical and lab technicians and pharmacists, among other staffers.
Workers and the nation's largest nonprofit, private health care provider failed to reach an agreement over the weekend. Staffing levels are a key issue, along with pay and benefits,“Kaiser executives refuse to acknowledge how much patient care has deteriorated or how much the frontline health care workforce and patients are suffering because of the Kaiser short-staffing crisis,” Dave Regan, president of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, said in late September.
Kaiser has 39 hospitals and more than 600 medical offices serving nearly 13 million patients in Washington, D.C., and eight states, including California, Colorado, Oregon, Virginia and Washington. Employees in Kaiser's Georgia facilities would not be affected.practices,reported.
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