A possible five-day strike by health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities is set to begin Tuesday and could affect three hospitals in San Diego County, according to union officials.<\/p>\n
The strike plan is part of a planned walkout statewide in California and Hawaii involving 31,000 members of the United Nurses Associations of California\/Union of Health Care Professionals. Members include registered nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, rehab therapists, dietitians, speech- language pathologists, nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, midwives and other specialty health workers.<\/p>\n
The San Diego County facilities are Zion Medical Center in Grantville, where picketing is expected Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; San Diego Medical Center in Kearny Mesa (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday); and San Marcos Medical Center daily from Tuesday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The strike is scheduled to end at 7 a.m. next Sunday.<\/p>\n
The union says it is striking to protect patient care and secure a fair contract that addresses safe staffing levels, equitable pay and benefits.<\/p>\n
Kaiser Permanente has said that its hospitals and medical offices will remain open, though some non-urgent appointments and elective surgeries may be rescheduled.<\/p>\n
“We have robust plans in place to ensure continued care. It’s possible we may need to reschedule some non-urgent appointments and elective surgeries,” the company said in an online statement. “Your care is our priority. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any potential inconvenience this may cause.”<\/p>\n
Patients were urged not to cancel or reschedule appointments and will be contacted if any changes are necessary during a strike.<\/p>\n
“Since May, we have been negotiating in good faith with the Alliance of Health Care Unions on a new national agreement that supports our employees, maintains our status as a best place to work, and ensures affordable care for our members,” the health care company said. “A strike notice doesn’t mean a strike will actually happen. We’ll continue bargaining in good faith with the Alliance and will work to reach an agreement before a strike occurs. If a strike does happen, our hospitals and medical offices will stay open.”<\/p>\n
A statement on the union website says it will be the largest strike in UNAC\/UHCP’s history.<\/p>\n
“Workers are going on strike after Kaiser executives have refused for months of negotiations to settle a fair contract,” they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A possible five-day strike by health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities is set to begin Tuesday and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1141,3584,3549,3550,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-299436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-hospitals","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-county","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115365870591879537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}