More than 31,000 Members of the United Nurses Associations of California are striking Kaiser Permanente.
These Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) are now on Strike at more than two dozen Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and hundreds of Clinics across California and Hawaii.
The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)-Affiliated Union is part of the larger Alliance of Health Care Unions, a coalition representing over 60,000 Workers at the Health Care Company. Nurses and other Health Care Staff walking the picket line in this open-ended Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike are fighting for a contract that includes safe staffing protocols and fair compensation so they can ensure the highest quality patient care.
“We’re not going on Strike to make noise,” UNAC/UHCP President Charmaine Morales, a Registered Nurse, said. “We’re striking because Kaiser has committed serious Unfair Labor Practices and because Kaiser refuses to bargain in good faith over staffing that protects patients, workload standards that stop moral injury, and the respect and dignity that Kaiser Caregivers have been denied for far too long.”
