31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other health care workers strike for better wages and staffing

SACRAMENTO -- An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and different front-line Kaiser Permanente wellness attraction workers went connected onslaught Tuesday to request amended wages and staffing from the California-based wellness attraction giant.

Organizers accidental the five-day onslaught crossed 500 aesculapian centers and offices successful California, Hawaii and Oregon is the largest successful the 50-year past of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals. The onslaught could turn to see 46,000 people.

Those connected strike, including pharmacists, midwives and rehab therapists, accidental wages person not kept gait with ostentation and determination is not capable staffing to support up with diligent demand.

They are asking for a 25% wage summation implicit 4 years to marque up for wages they accidental are astatine slightest 7% down their peers.

Kaiser Permanente has countered with a 21.5% summation implicit 4 years. The institution says that represented employees earn, connected average, 16% much than their peers, and it would person to complaint customers much to conscionable strikers' wage demand.

The institution said wellness clinics and hospitals volition stay unfastened during the strike, with immoderate in-person appointments shifted to virtual appointments, and immoderate elective surgeries and procedures being rescheduled.

Kaiser Permanente is 1 of the nation's largest not-for-profit wellness plans, serving 12.6 cardinal members astatine 600 aesculapian offices and 40 hospitals successful mostly occidental U.S. states. It is based successful Oakland, California.