FILE - Kaiser Permanente mental health workers and supporters march outside a Kaiser facility in Sacramento, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022. Roughly 75,000 health care workers at the Kaiser Permanente hospital system are poised to go on a three-day strike at hospitals in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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. They say understaffing is boosting the hospital system’s profits but hurting patients, and executives have been bargaining in bad faith during negotiations.
Kaiser executive Michelle Gaskill-Hames defended the company and said its practices, compensation and retention are better than its competitors, even as the entire sector faces the same challenges. “I think coming out of the pandemic, health care workers have been completely burned out," she said."The trauma that was felt caring for so many COVID patients, and patients that died, was just difficult.
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