Kaiser Permanente is one of the US’s larger insurers and healthcare system operators.
Picketing is under way at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 US healthcare workers go on strike in Virginia, California and three other states over wages and staffing shortages.
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, representing about 85,000 of the health system’s employees nationally, approved a strike for three days in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and for one day in Virginia and Washington, DC. It comes amid unprecedented worker organising – from strike authorisations to work stoppages – within multiple industries this year, including, transportation, entertainment and hospitality.
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