Kaiser Permanente workers launch historic strike over staffing and pay
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are walking picket lines at hundreds of hospitals and medical centers across the U.S.
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More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are walking picket lines at hundreds of hospitals and medical centers across the U.S.
Kaiser Permanente workers in the Bay Area walked off the job Wednesday, joined tens of thousands of employees in what is being billed as the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. (10/4/23)
The walkout by Kaiser Permanente nurses, orderlies and other workers represents the biggest health care strike in U.S. history.
Two Bay Area labor unions representing scientists, engineers, health care and office workers have approved a sympathy strike to join Kaiser Permanente workers' strike Oct. 4-6
A Kaiser Permanente union representing tens of thousands of California health care workers said Thursday its members will strike if the two sides can't reach a contract agreement by the end of the month.
Healthcare provider Kaiser has agreed to pay $49 million to settle claims of illegal dumping at its medical facilities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several district attorneys announced Friday.
Kaiser workers at 40 facilities across the state on Tuesday, including 17 in the Bay Area, are staging a picket to protest what they say are staffing shortages. The healthcare provider stressed that the workers are not striking and facilities remain open. (7/25/23)
Kaiser Permanente health care workers picketed Tuesday at more than 40 facilities across the state, including 17 in the Bay Area, claiming unsafe staffing levels.
Across the country, there is a shortage of mental health professionals. A Bay Area doctor is among those training to be a part of the solution. Lezla Gooden reports. (6/14/23)
The first baby born in the Bay Area in 2023 appears to be a baby boy born at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center just after midnight.
KPIX reporter Reed Cowan talks to Ed Chan of Kaiser Permanente and Allison Pratt of the Alameda County Community Food Bank, after the healthcare provider announced a donation of $185,000, as part of Food for Bay Area Families. (12/28/22)
Kaiser Permanente and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) announced Tuesday that the two parties reached a tentative agreement, which would end a 10-week strike.
The union representing Kaiser Permanente mental health therapists on their seventh week of striking said members "resoundingly rejected a contract offer" from Kaiser over the weekend.
Mental health therapists and nurses at Kaiser Permanente in their fifth week of striking have called on state regulators to prevent the health care provider from using temporary replacement workers.
Nurses from Kaiser Permanente facilities throughout the state picketed Thursday to protest the health care giant's alleged refusal to address concerns about health, safety and short staffing.
Mental health professionals at Kaiser Permanente on Monday are set to begin their second week on the picket line at several locations around Northern California and the Central Valley.
Kaiser Permanente mental health professionals in Northern California are set to begin what organizers call an "open-ended strike" Monday
