Recent union contract gains against a backdrop of decades of union decline, worsening wealth inequality and broken labor laws.
A California settlement compels the state’s largest health care provider to spend $150 million on behavioral health services.
A three day strike preceded the settlement.
It’s the final day of a massive health care strike over pay and staff shortages. No deal is in sight.
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions is undertaking “escalated action,” which means that the union is holding back the full force of the coalition of unions for the moment, with plans for additional strikes in November if needed.
Workers from coast to coast are preparing to stage an unfair labor practice strike in response to what they see as unfair bargaining from Kaiser to resolve the staffing shortage.
Two key issues for the workers, all members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, have been the subject of negotiation: wage increases and the union’s demand to increase the time therapists spend on tasks other than seeing patients.
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