Mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities strike, including psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, licensed clinical counselors and…
The impacted workers include psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, addiction medicine counselors, licensed clinical counselors and marriage and family therapists, according to the unionNearly 2,400 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities are poised to strike Monday amid contract talks and allegations of a"broken" system of care, while Kaiser officials say the union has been"slow walking" the negotiation process and planned to strike before labor...
The union contends that one-fourth of the 1,508 mental health professionals hired by Kaiser's Southern California region between January 2021 and September 2024 have already left their positions.Kaiser officials said in a statement that the health care system is committed to continued negotiations"until this deal is done.
"Today, some of the employees represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers are choosing to walk away from their patients at various Kaiser Permanente facilities in Southern California to take part in an open-ended strike called by union leaders," Kaiser said in a statement released Monday.
"The union isn't calling for more time to care for patients. It is demanding more money for therapists to spend less time seeing patients. A key issue is how much time the union wants to take therapists away from direct patient care. The union is proposing that full-time therapists increase the amount of time they are not seeing patients to nearly half of their time -- at least 19 hours a week.
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