Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers kicked off a major healthcare strike amid an extraordinary year for U.S. labor organizing and work stoppages.
The strikers include licensed vocational nurses, home health aides, and ultrasound sonographers, as well as technicians in radiology, X-ray, surgical, pharmacy, and emergency departments.
They say understaffing is boosting the hospital system’s profits but hurting patients, and executives have been bargaining in bad faith during negotiations. However, the company said it still was dealing with cost headwinds and challenges from inflation and labor shortages. She added that Kaiser only faces a 7% turnover compared to the industry standard of 21%, despite the effects of the pandemic.Unions representing Kaiser workers asked for a $25 hourly minimum wage, as well as increases of 7% each year in the first two years.“They’re not listening to the frontline health care workers,” said Mikki Fletchall, a licensed vocational nurse based in Camarillo, California. “We’re striking because of our patients. We don’t want to have to do it, but we will do it.
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