Thousands of US health care workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages

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Picketing has begun at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 workers who say understaffing is hurting patient care go on strike in five states and the District of Columbia.

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The strikers include licensed vocational nurses, home health aides and ultrasound sonographers, as well as technicians in radiology, X-ray, surgical, pharmacy and emergency departments.Mike Pence says he is ‘deeply disappointed’ in vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speakerDoctors are not participating, and Kaiser says its hospitals, including emergency rooms, will remain open during the picketing.

“They’re not listening to the frontline health care workers,” said Mikki Fletchall, a licensed vocational nurse based in a Kaiser medical office in Camarillo, California. “We’re striking because of our patients. We don’t want to have to do it, but we will do it.”Since 2022, the hospital system has hired 51,000 workers and has plans to add 10,000 more people by the end of the month.

“Our focus, for the dollars that we bring in, are to keep them invested in value-based care,” said Gaskill-Hames, president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals of Southern California and Hawaii.

 

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