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Kaiser Permanente unions will vote on strike authorization

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August 24, 2023
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The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents more than 85,000 health care workers in seven states and the District of Columbia, announced Thursday that its members would vote to authorize a strike between Aug. 26 and Sept. 13.

This would be “the largest strike of health care workers in the history of this country,” said Dave Regan, president of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW).

The strike could begin as early as Oct. 1.

Since the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ratified a new contract with UPS on Tuesday, averting a strike of more than 300,000 Teamsters, the Kaiser coalition is currently embroiled in the largest single-employer negotiations in the U.S. 

The coalition is demanding Kaiser address staff concerns related to unsafe staffing levels and unfair labor practices related to bargaining. Four months into negotiations, Regan said the coalition had not received a counterproposal from Kaiser Permanente.

Kaiser Permanente did not immediately return The Hill’s request for comment.

A worker strike would have huge impacts on hospitals and patients in California, Colorado, D.C., Oregon, Hawaii, Maryland, Virginia and Washington.

Kaiser and the coalition last negotiated a contract in 2019. In 2020, health care workers were thrust onto the front line of the pandemic, working through worsening conditions that exacerbated staffing issues at hospitals across the country.

In a May survey of 33,000 healthcare workers by SEIU-UHW, two-thirds said they’d witnessed delays in or denial of care due to understaffing.

“It’s heartbreaking to see our patients suffer from long wait times for the care they need, all because Kaiser won’t put patient and worker safety first. We will have no choice but to vote to strike if Kaiser won’t let us give patients the quality care they deserve,” said Paula Coleman, a clinical laboratory assistant at Kaiser Permanente in Englewood, Colo. 

Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit health care provider in the U.S. It reported profits topping $3 billion in the first six months of 2023.

In 2021, Kaiser Chairman and CEO Gregory Adams received around $15.6 million in compensation, according to the nonprofit’s most recent Form 990. Dozens of executives received more than $1 million that year.

“Kaiser can afford to end this dangerous understaffing, but they choose not to. For the sake of our patients and our colleagues, we’re prepared to authorize a strike because Kaiser cannot keep bargaining in bad faith and committing unfair labor practices,” said Nahid Bokaee, a pharmacist in Sterling, Va.

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