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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 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 deal is still pending a vote by the union membership and includes modest raises for nurses through 2028 and preserves their healthcare and retirement benefits.

New York hospitals are ignoring striking nurses’ demands for patient and health care worker safety and respect and trying to weaken one of the city’s most important unions. Mayor Mamdani and his movement have a key role to play in helping nurses win.

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

Unlike Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul has not backed striking New York nurses, tepidly calling on “both sides” to negotiate. Her position may have to do with the hefty donations state Democrats have received from the New York hospital associ

About 560 Starbucks locations have voted for union representation since the first vote to unionize four years ago, according to the union Starbucks Workers United.