Just as Sharp resolves its nursing contract, Kaiser nurses are set to launch an open-ended strike on Monday.
San Diego, CA – November 26: Over 5,700 Sharp Health Care nurses started a three-day strike on November 26, 2025 in San Diego, CA. Here, nurses picket outside of Sharp Memorial Hospital. Sharp HealthCare announced Friday that its registered nurses have ratified a new contract that will increase overall pay by 18% over four years, a deal that arrived after union members staged a three-day strike in late November.
The Sharp Professional Nurses Network, affiliated with United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, represents an estimated 5,700 members. The union confirmed the contract ratification Friday afternoon, saying in its own statement that its members also will receive 72 hours of “frontloaded” sick leave and “a restoration of retiree medical benefits,” as part of the deal. Sharp’s statement indicates that base pay will increase 5% across the board in the contract’s first year, with 4% bumps for each of the agreement’s final three years. While those percentages add up to a total of 17 percentage points, a union spokesperson confirmed Friday afternoon that the overall increase totals 18% when annual compounding is accounted for. The union also represents Kaiser nurses who are planning to stage their own strike of unlimited duration starting Monday. The two sides of this negotiation, which have been in negotiations since September 2025, have included union claims that Kaiser has put “profits over patients” in its negotiations. The reportindicating that it will pursue abandoning a nationwide negotiation strategy involving 53 different bargaining units across the states it serves. Instead, Kaiser said, it will move negotiations to local bargaining units.La Jolla couple facing criminal charges, SEC suit over alleged $100 million pump-and-dump schemeThis San Diego investment fund has too much moneyAfter second trial, jury convicts San Diego County deputy who seriously injured restrained inmate3 thoughts: Grand Canyon 70, SDSU 69 … the call, future series and another pro playing in college
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