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75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike in five states and DC

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Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Virginia and Washington, D.C., began a strike Wednesday.

The strike has been approved in the Western states for three days and in Virginia and D.C. for one day by The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, according to The Associated Press. The strike of about 75,000 workers continues a year of prominent labor actions.

Health care workers included among the strikers are vocational nurses, home health aides, ultrasound sonographers, radiology technicians, X-ray, surgical, pharmacy and emergency departments, the AP reported.

“They’re not listening to the front-line health care workers,” said Mikki Fletchall, a vocational nurse from California, according to the AP. “We’re striking because of our patients. We don’t want to have to do it, but we will do it.”

In August, unions for the Kaiser workers requested wages of $25 per hour, with 7 percent increases each year for the first two years, followed by 6.25 percent increases each year for the next two years, according to the AP.

Kaiser Permanente has 39 hospitals nationwide, administers health insurance for about 13 million people and reported $2.1 billion in net income in the second quarter of this year, according to the AP. Michelle Gaskill-Hames, an executive for Kaiser, said the company’s compensation, among other features like retention and practices, is superior to others.

“Our focus, for the dollars that we bring in, are to keep them invested in value-based care,” Gaskill-Hames told AP.

Labor costs have been hitting hospitals hard in recent years, said Rick Gundling, a senior vice president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association — a nonprofit that works with health care finance executives — according to the AP. Gundling said the majority of hospitals’ revenue is fixed and comes out of government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, resulting in revenue growth being “only possible by increasing volumes, which is difficult even under the best of circumstances.”

In a statement on its website, Kaiser Permanente said it is “currently bargaining” with the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.

“We’re committed to achieving an agreement before the contract expires on September 30,” the statement continues.

Updated: 12:57 p.m.

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