Alliance Of Health Care Unions Members Authorize Strike Against Kaiser Permanente To Begin November 15, 2021

The Alliance of Health Care Unions (Alliance), which represents 21,000 Kaiser Permanente (KP) health care workers in California and Oregon, informed KP that a labor dispute strike was authorized to begin November 15, 2021, at 7 a.m. The notice stated no end date for the strike.

Members United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), USW Local 7600, and OFNHP, which are part of the Alliance, voted to authorize a strike after contract negotiations with KP stalled. The negotiations stalled over a proposed two-tiered wage system in which KP workers hired in 2023 . . .