The strike will affect 366 facilities in Southern California, including hospitals and medical centers in Anaheim, Antelope Valley, Baldwin Park, Downey, Fontana, Harbor City, Irvine, Los Angeles, Ontario-Vineyard, Panorama City, Riverside, San Diego, West Los Angeles and Woodland Hills, as well as hundreds of clinics, quick care clinics in Target stores, and medical office buildings from Bakersfield down to San Diego and Los Angeles out to the Inland Empire. Nearly 7,400 members of United Steelworkers Local 7600 in Southern California and 3,400 members of Oregon Federation of Nurses and Healthcare Professionals will also strike against Kaiser starting on the same day, bringing the total number of strikers as high as nearly 32,000 workers. The 10-day notice is required by California law in order to allow health facilities to prepare. If an agreement isn’t reached by the deadline, some 21,000 registered nurses, pharmacists, midwives, physical and occupational therapists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants will stop working. The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals are striking over Kaiser Permanente’s proposals to “depress wages for current employees and slash wages for incoming workers during a national health care staffing crisis,” the union said in a news release. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ī union representing thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees delivered a 10-day notice to one of the nation’s largest health care providers Thursday, saying they will go on strike beginning Nov. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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