Kaiser Permanente reaches a tentative deal with health care worker unions after a recent strike

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Unions representing 75,000 health care workers who recently held a strike against industry giant Kaiser Permanente over wages and staffing shortages have reached a tentative agreement with the company

.last week involving 75,000 workers in multiple states officially ended last Saturday and workers returned to their jobs in Kaiser's hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans.

“No health care worker wants to go on strike,” Caroline Lucas, the coalition’s executive director, said Thursday. “I hope that the last few days have helped escalate this issue.” Unions representing Kaiser workers in August asked for a $25 hourly minimum wage, as well as increases of 7% each year in the first two years and 6.25% each year in the two years afterward.

 

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