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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 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