In Northern California, 2,400 mental health providers went on strike earlier this month against medical giant Kaiser Permanente. A major point of contention is Kaiser’s efforts to replace human-provided mental health care with artificial intelligence
Thousands of Kaiser health care workers, including 22,000 nurses in Southern California, are on strike to demand better pay and staffing. The walk out has resulted in canceled or delayed appointments and surgeries, patients say.
The escalation comes two weeks after 31,000 nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants and other professionals in California and Hawaii began the strike in late January.
The union seeks 25% raises over four years and says Kaiser halted negotiations in December, halting talks both with a national coalition of labor groups representing workers at the healthcare system, as well as with local chapters, which hash out sch
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.
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