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A Kaiser Permanente union representing tens of thousands of California health care workers said Thursday, Sept. 14, that its members will strike if the two sides can't reach a contract agreement by the end of the month.
Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West officials said that 98% of their 58,000 Kaiser workers in California voted to approve the strike.
Roughly 15,000 additional Kaiser workers in seven states -- including Washington, Colorado and Oregon -- could also vote to authorize a strike later this month.
"Kaiser has failed to bargain in good faith with the caregivers who are doing everything they can to protect patient safety," said SEIU-UHW president Dave Regan. "Nearly 60,000 frontline workers at Kaiser facilities have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike because we will simply not stand by as Kaiser violates the law and puts patients at risk."
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The union, which represents roughly 19,000 Bay Area Kaiser workers, says that the health care giant has reported more than $24 billion in profits over the last five years and its CEO was paid more than $16 million in 2021, while forty-nine other executives took home more than $1 million annually.
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