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Kaiser, health care workers keep talking as possible strike looms

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With health care employees for Kaiser Permanente poised to launch a three-day strike that their union says will be the largest of its type in U.S. history, contract talks between the health care provider and union negotiators continued Monday and will resume Tuesday in hopes of averting the walkout.

Kaiser officials issued a statement Monday saying it leaders were meeting with the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions"and have been making progress."

According to the union, additional pickets would be held at Kaiser facilities across the state, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties respiratory therapists, x-ray technicians, certified nursing assistants, dietary services, behavioral health workers, surgical technicians, pharmacy technicians, transporters, home health aides, phlebotomists and medical assistants, union officials said.

 

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