US healthcare workers go on strike in several states over wages, staff shortages
1 year, 2 months ago

US healthcare workers go on strike in several states over wages, staff shortages

India Today  

Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job Wednesday in multiple states, kicking off a major health care strike in an extraordinary year for US labour organising and work stoppages. “They’re not listening to the frontline health care workers,” said Mikki Fletchall, a licensed vocational nurse based in a Kaiser medical office in Camarillo, California. “We’re striking because of our patients.” Early Wednesday, workers at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center cheered as the strike deadline arrived. The California legislature has sent Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom a bill that would increase the minimum wage for the state’s 455,000 health care workers to $25 per hour over the next decade.

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Kaiser mental health professionals in Southern California go on strike
2 months ago

Kaiser mental health professionals in Southern California go on strike

LA Times  

Psychologists, therapists and other mental health professionals who work for Kaiser Permanente across Southern California walk a picket line at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Union members clad in red T-shirts picketed along Sunset Boulevard outside Kaiser’s Los Angeles Medical Center on Monday morning, clanging cowbells and cheering to Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” “Unless we strike, …

More than 2,000 Kaiser mental health professionals could go on strike Monday
2 months, 1 week ago

More than 2,000 Kaiser mental health professionals could go on strike Monday

LA Times  

Maggie Sisco, along with other members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, make signs at a Glendale union office for a potential strike in Glendale. More than 2,000 unionized psychologists, therapists and other mental health professionals at Kaiser Permanente in Southern California are preparing to strike Monday amid complaints that the massive system has failed to address problems with …

Why so many healthcare workers are walking off the job
1 year, 1 month ago

Why so many healthcare workers are walking off the job

BBC  

Why so many healthcare workers are walking off the job Kaiser Permanente workers on strike Hospital workers and pharmacists at companies including Kaiser Permanente and Walgreens are organising, demanding better conditions to help with pay, under-staffing and patient care. "In my time, this is the largest wave of healthcare strikes I've seen," says Ingrid Nembhard, professor of healthcare management at …

Kaiser Permanente reaches a tentative deal with health care worker unions after a recent strike
1 year, 2 months ago

Kaiser Permanente reaches a tentative deal with health care worker unions after a recent strike

Associated Press  

OAKLAND, Calif. — Unions representing 85,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels, the parties announced Friday. “Millions of Americans are safer today because tens of thousands of dedicated healthcare workers fought for and won the critical resources they need and that patients need,” said Caroline …

Healthcare workers kick off 5-day strike at four hospitals over staffing shortage, labor practices
1 year, 2 months ago

Healthcare workers kick off 5-day strike at four hospitals over staffing shortage, labor practices

LA Times  

Hundreds of workers at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood walked out on Sept. 28 as part of a five-day strike. Roughly 1,500 essential workers at four hospitals in Los Angeles County kicked off a five-day strike Monday morning to protest what they claim are dangerous working conditions and unfair labor practices by hospital management. Employees at St. Francis Medical …

Opinion: Why the Kaiser Permanente strike may signal more healthcare labor unrest to come
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: Why the Kaiser Permanente strike may signal more healthcare labor unrest to come

LA Times  

More than 75,000 nurses, nursing assistants, technicians, pharmacists and other healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike in California and beyond this week. The Kaiser workers argue that the low pay and benefits, lack of adequate training and poor working conditions that led them to strike are also putting patients at risk. Doctors and other healthcare workers in Britain …

Thousands of US workers are on strike today. Here’s a rundown of major work stoppages happening now
1 year, 2 months ago

Thousands of US workers are on strike today. Here’s a rundown of major work stoppages happening now

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — It’s been a big year for labor organizing in the U.S. And from auto production lines to Hollywood, all eyes are on strikes taking the world of work by storm. 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walk off the job In the health care sector, a major strike kicked off this week — with some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers …

What to know as California’s Kaiser Permanente workers go on strike
1 year, 2 months ago

What to know as California’s Kaiser Permanente workers go on strike

LA Times  

It’s Thursday, Oct. 5. What to know as Kaiser workers go on strike San Francisco pays tribute to Sen. Dianne Feinstein We tried everything at the Skechers food court And here’s today’s e-newspaper Kaiser workers walk out Outside Kaiser Permanente centers across California, hundreds of front-line workers in purple union shirts walked out Wednesday morning in protest of unfair labor …

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers launch strike
1 year, 2 months ago

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers launch strike

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. She previously worked as a pharmacy …

Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike
1 year, 2 months ago

Health care workers picket outside US hospitals in multiple states, kicking off 3-day strike

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers took to picket lines in multiple states on Wednesday, launching a massive strike that the company warned could cause delays at its hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans. “Kaiser has not been bargaining with us in good faith and so it’s pushing us to come out here …

More than 75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike amid clash over staffing, wages
1 year, 2 months ago

More than 75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike amid clash over staffing, wages

LA Times  

On the first day of a three-day strike, Kaiser employees walk out of the hospital to picket and rally at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. In Los Angeles, crowds of workers cheered, chanted and hoisted signs urging Kaiser to respect healthcare workers and “put patients first.” Drivers passing by Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center honked to show their …

75,000 Kaiser nurses, pharmacists and other workers have walked off the job
1 year, 2 months ago

75,000 Kaiser nurses, pharmacists and other workers have walked off the job

NPR  

75,000 Kaiser nurses, pharmacists and other workers have walked off the job Enlarge this image toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP Damian Dovarganes/AP Health care workers at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning, in an effort to ramp up pressure on their employer to fix a staffing shortage that has …

Huge strike could happen at Kaiser health facilities starting Wednesday. Here’s what we know
1 year, 2 months ago

Huge strike could happen at Kaiser health facilities starting Wednesday. Here’s what we know

LA Times  

On the first day of a three day strike, Kaiser employees picket and rally at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Kaiser Permanente said that if a strike occurs, it has “contingency plans in place” to ensure patients can continue to get care. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions says its members agreed to the strike to protest “bad-faith bargaining” …

More than 75,000 Kaiser workers in California and elsewhere plan to strike next month
1 year, 3 months ago

More than 75,000 Kaiser workers in California and elsewhere plan to strike next month

LA Times  

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees in California and elsewhere plan to go on strike in early October after the healthcare giant and unions that represent a huge swath of the Kaiser workforce failed to reach an agreement this week that resolves concerns about pay, staffing and other issues. The organization said in a statement that it would “continue …

Tens of thousands of Kaiser healthcare workers approve possible strike
1 year, 3 months ago

Tens of thousands of Kaiser healthcare workers approve possible strike

LA Times  

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers have voted to authorize a strike if no agreement is reached with their unions by the end of September, union officials announced Thursday. SEIU United Healthcare Workers West said nearly 60,000 workers in California had approved a possible strike, teeing up what could be the biggest strike by healthcare workers in U.S. history. …

‘Overworked’: US nurses strike over low pay, staffing shortages
2 years, 3 months ago

‘Overworked’: US nurses strike over low pay, staffing shortages

Al Jazeera  

About 15,000 nurses in state of Minnesota begin three-day strike, one of the largest of its kind in US history. The strike, which the MNA said is believed to be the largest of its kind in United States history, highlights the persistent problems that US healthcare workers face, such as low pay and staffing shortages. The strike has caught the …

Workers are fed up. But is this really #Striketober?
3 years, 2 months ago

Workers are fed up. But is this really #Striketober?

LA Times  

United Auto Workers members listen to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa, speak outside a John Deere plant in Ankeny, Iowa. Union leaders said the agreement contained “significant economic gains.” But workers weren’t having it. Robert Reich, a former U.S. Labor secretary, dubs the wave of resignations, mostly in hospitality, retail, and healthcare, “the General Strike of …

Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike, citing staffing and safety concerns
3 years, 2 months ago

Kaiser Permanente workers vote to authorize strike, citing staffing and safety concerns

LA Times  

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees in Southern California voted to authorize a strike against the healthcare giant, as the workers continue to protest what they describe as severe staffing shortages that put both medical staff and patients at risk. In California, UNAC/UHCP President Denise Duncan, a registered nurse, said talks with Kaiser have brought little progress toward the union’s goals, …

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