GOOD MORNING. I’M DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK AND I’M TEO TORRES. WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS. THE LARGEST MEDICAL WORKER STRIKE EVER UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND FOUR OTHER STATES. KCRA 3’S MIKE TESELLE LIVE NOW AT KAISER PERMANENTE AND MORSE AVENUE IN SACRAMENTO WHERE THE WORKERS ARE ON THE PICKET LINES.
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.
“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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