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Why are thousands of Kaiser health care workers on strike? 5 questions answered

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike in Virginia, California, Colorado, Washington state, Oregon and Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4, 2023, after company executives and eight unions representing aides, techs, support staff and other employees failed to agree on the terms of new contracts. This…

The Conversation

Kaiser Permanente healthcare strike could disrupt vaccine and prescription access: Live updates

The Kaiser strike is expected to span three days, as healthcare workers join picket lines across the country to protest staffing shortages

The Independent UK

Kaiser Permanente frontline worker discusses ‘unbearable’ impact of staffing shortage crisis

Tami Chew is on the picket line after working for Kaiser for 17 years and noticing a ‘deteriorating’ partnership between the coalition and the hospital system

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Labor strife at this healthcare giant could alter the industry landscape in the short-term

As union members walk off the job, there’s no RX in sight in this worker-employer scrap

The Street

Understaffing complaints, overwhelmed nurses, and unfair pay: Kaiser healthcare strike gets underway

Kaiser serves nearly 13 million patients, who will remain a ‘top priority’ as the strike unfolds, the hospital system said

The Independent UK

75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers begin three-day strike: Live updates

The Kaiser strike is expected to span three days, as healthcare workers join picket lines across the country to protest staffing shortages

The Independent UK

‘Burnt out and fed up’: 75,000 workers begin largest healthcare strike in US

Kaiser Permanente workers start three-day strike, demanding wage increases and better staffing, after union contracts expire

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Kaiser hospital strike begins with 75,000 workers joining picket lines across the US

‘No agreement can be made until Kaiser executives stop bargaining in bad faith and committing unfair labor practices,’ said the executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions

The Independent UK

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

In the largest health care strike in U.S. history, over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. walked off the job on Wednesday morning.

WEKU

Thousands of US health care workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages

Picketing has begun at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 workers who say understaffing is hurting patient care go on strike in five states and the District of Columbia

The Independent UK

Poised to Strike, Kaiser Workers Say They Want The Old Kaiser Back

Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs.

Capital & Main

The latest big strike focuses on a crucial public service: healthcare

Labor issues continue to be a hot button issue in 2023, with now as many as 75,000 healthcare workers potentially going on strike this week.

The Street

Up First briefing: Effects of a shutdown; health workers may strike; Maui conspiracies

What will stay open if the government shuts down? Kaiser Permanente's health care workers near a nationwide walkout. How conspiracy theories spread in the wake of wildfires in Hawaii.

WEKU

Overworked and understaffed: Kaiser workers are on the brink of a nationwide strike

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers at hundreds of U.S. facilities could go on strike for three days starting Wednesday, in the largest health care strike in the county's history.

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The Independent UK

Kaiser to pay $49 million to California for illegally dumping private medical records, medical waste

Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $49 million as part of a settlement with California prosecutors who say the health care giant illegally disposed of thousands of private medical records, hazardous materials and medical waste, including blood and body parts

The Guardian - US

US healthcare workers focus on pay and understaffing in fight for new contracts

Over 85,000 workers hold pickets at 50 facilities across US as union contracts set to expire on 30 September

Windows Central

Kaiser Frontier XL review: Gaming chair perfection has never felt so good

The Kaiser Frontier XL is yet another impressive gaming chair from AndaSeat. It's durable, comfortable, and beautiful to look at.

Capital & Main

Unfinished Mental Health Business For Governor Newsom

While it ponders ambitious new laws to improve mental health, California could strengthen what’s already on the books.

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New records show how police found 8-year-old Sophia Mason — but it was already too late

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Newly obtained documents in the killing of Sophia Mason show that Hayward police — after getting a missing person’s report about the 8-year-old in March 2022 — swiftly determined what Alameda County social workers had failed to see for more than a year: The girl was…

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: A transgender patient's lawsuit against Kaiser is a front for the conservative war on LGBTQ rights

California teenager Chloe Cole has become something of a star of the movement to deny treatments to transgender youth.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Ron DeSantis symbolizes that it’s Richard Nixon’s Republican Party now

Commentators portray Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a more organized and calculating Donald Trump. In reality, DeSantis most resembles Richard Nixon — disciplined, stiff and intense. Both lack Trump’s charisma and ease before voters. Also unlike Trump — but very much like Nixon — DeSantis effectively deploys powers of the…

Capital & Main

For Kaiser Therapists, the Strike Is Over But the Work Goes On

After 10 weeks of workers walking the picket line, core issues regarding patient care remain unresolved.

Tribune News Service

Surprising turn: Worker wages rising faster than the cost of job-based health insurance

Enjoy it while it lasts: Workers’ pay has been growing faster than the cost of job-based health insurance.

Tribune News Service

Family health plan premiums hold at $22,463, but employers see growth in mental health needs

A prominent national survey finds that premiums for family coverage in employer health plans held steady this year — a first for an annual report that for decades has shown family coverage in the U.S. becoming increasingly expensive.

Los Angeles Times

California sees increase in RSV, a respiratory illness that can be dangerous for babies

LOS ANGELES — Some California children’s hospitals are straining under a surge of RSV, a respiratory illness that can cause babies to struggle to breathe.

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