{"id":2055522,"date":"2023-10-04T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-75000-kaiser-permanente-workers-on-strike\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:27:16","slug":"over-75000-kaiser-permanente-workers-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-75000-kaiser-permanente-workers-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"75K+ Kaiser Permanente employees strike."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fover-75000-kaiser-permanente-workers-on-strike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2055522&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by\u2063 Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/stephanie-stahl\">Stephanie Stahl<\/a><br \/>12:20 PM \u2013 Wednesday, October 4, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Get ready for the largest health care \u2064strike in U.S. history! Over \u206275,000 Kaiser Permanente \u2062employees \u2063have taken to \u2064the picket lines, demanding better compensation, benefits, and safer work environments. This massive strike, organized by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, is set to continue until Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The coalition, consisting \u200cof eight unions, represents about\u200c 40% of Kaiser Permanente&#8217;s workforce. \u2063Employees in California, Colorado, Washington, \u200bVirginia, Oregon, and Washington, DC are participating in the strike. They are fighting not only for their own rights \u200dbut also for \u200cthe quality of\u2062 patient care, as \u200bstaffing shortages have put immense \u2064pressure\u200c on the workers \u2063and compromised\u2064 the well-being of those they serve.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, expressed concern over\u200b the hazardous working conditions\u200c and declining patient care \u200dcaused by the staff \u200dshortage. &#8220;We have folks getting injured \u2062on the job\u2064 because they&#8217;re\u200c trying\u2064 to do \u200ctoo much \u2064and \u200csee too many people and\u2064 work too quickly. It&#8217;s not a sustainable situation,&#8221; she stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;We continue to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-first-vaccines-rolling-out-of-michigan-plant-headed-directly-for-american-hospitals\/\" title=\"America First: Vaccines Rolling Out of Michigan Plant, Headed Directly for American Hospitals\">front-line health care workers<\/a> who are burnt out\u2062 and stretched \u200cto the max and leaving the industry,&#8221; Lucas said in\u2063 a\u200d statement. &#8220;We have folks getting \u200cinjured on the job because \u2062they&#8217;re trying \u2062to do too much and see too \u200cmany\u2064 people and work too quickly. It&#8217;s not\u200d a sustainable situation,&#8221;\u200b she continued. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kaiser Permanente acknowledged the stress experienced by healthcare workers and \u200cpledged to work towards\u2063 a fair\u200c agreement. However, the union coalition accuses\u200d management of failing to address \u2064their\u2062 concerns, leading to this historic strike. The\u200c coalition described the 3-day \u200cstrike as\u2062 a protest against &#8220;bad faith bargaining&#8221; \u200dby\u2064 Kaiser \u200cexecutives.<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u2063reporting a profit of \u2062$2 billion in the\u2064 second quarter, Kaiser&#8217;s management has\u200d been \u2062criticized for not prioritizing the well-being of its\u200d employees. The strike includes various healthcare roles, such as emergency \u200bdepartment technicians, radiology technicians, X-ray \u200dtechnicians,\u2064 respiratory therapists, medical assistants, and pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Permanente serves nearly 13 million patients across eight states and the District of Columbia. The \u200corganization has contingency measures in \u200cplace\u200c to ensure patient care continues during the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Stay \u200dinformed! \u2064Subscribe to \u2063receive breaking news\u200b directly to your\u200b inbox\u2062 for free. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe\u200c here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Dinesh D\u2019Souza<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Edward Ring<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Representative Henry Cuellar speaks out after he was \u200dcarjacked at gunpoint near his residence just a mile away from the Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Meta is planning \u200bto lay off \u2063employees\u2062 on Wednesday in the unit\u200d of\u2063 its metaverse-oriented Reality Labs division focused on \u200bcreating custom silicon<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s \u2063fraud trial \u2062got under way with jury selection on Tuesday, nearly a year after \u200chis now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange\u2019s\u00a0collapse.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-75000-kaiser-permanente-workers-on-strike\/\" title=\"75K+ Kaiser Permanente employees strike.\">global cryptocurrency market \u200cremains badly\u200b scarred<\/a> \u2063following the tumultuous collapse of crypto\u2064 exchange \u200dFTX and other big players last year<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A California \u2064federal judge has ruled people who own\u200d Tesla cars must\u2063 pursue autopilot claims in \u200dindividual arbitration rather than court.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> How has the staff shortage affected patient care \u2062and the well-being of healthcare workers according to Caroline Lucas<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Get Ready\u2064 for\u200d the Largest Healthcare Strike in U.S. History<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty\u2064 Images<\/p>\n<p>OAN\u2019s Stephanie \u2063Stahl<\/p>\n<p>12:20\u2062 PM \u2013 Wednesday, \u200dOctober 4, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Get \u200cready for the largest\u2064 healthcare strike in U.S. history! Over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees have taken to the picket lines, demanding better compensation, benefits, and safer\u2062 work environments. This massive strike, organized by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, is set to\u200c continue until Saturday \u2063morning.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition, consisting of eight unions, represents about \u200c40% \u200cof \u2064Kaiser Permanente&#8217;s\u2062 workforce. Employees in California, Colorado, Washington, Virginia, Oregon, and Washington, DC are participating in the strike. They are \u200cfighting not\u200b only for their own rights\u200c but\u200c also for the quality of \u200cpatient care, as\u200b staffing\u200b shortages\u2064 have put immense pressure on\u2064 the workers and compromised\u200c the well-being of \u200dthose they serve.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, expressed concern over the \u2064hazardous working conditions and declining patient care caused by the staff shortage. &#8220;We\u2063 have\u200b folks\u200d getting injured on the job\u2064 because\u200b they&#8217;re trying to do too much and see\u200b too many people and work too quickly. It&#8217;s not a sustainable situation,&#8221; she \u2062stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to have front-line healthcare workers who are burnt out and \u2064stretched \u2063to the max and \u200dleaving \u2064the industry,&#8221; Lucas\u2062 said in a statement. \u2064&#8221;We \u2064have\u200c folks getting injured on\u2063 the job \u200dbecause they&#8217;re trying \u2064to do too much and see\u200d too many\u200d people and work too\u2064 quickly. It&#8217;s not a sustainable situation,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Permanente acknowledged the stress experienced \u200bby healthcare workers and pledged to work towards a \u200bfair agreement. However, \u200dthe union coalition accuses management of failing\u2064 to \u2063address their concerns, leading to\u200d this historic \u200cstrike. The \u200dcoalition described the 3-day strike as a protest\u200d against &#8220;bad faith bargaining&#8221; by Kaiser executives.<\/p>\n<p>Despite reporting a profit of $2\u2064 billion\u200d in the s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees initiated the largest healthcare strike in US history, as reported by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions. 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