{"id":317619,"date":"2025-10-20T03:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317619\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T03:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:43:09","slug":"planned-5-day-strike-at-kaiser-permanente-facilities-ends-further-talks-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317619\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned 5-day strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities ends, further talks planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A planned <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kaiser-permanente-nurses-strike-5bef982ca243921451cf4ad593901fde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five-day strike<\/a> by thousands of registered nurses and other Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California, Hawaii and Oregon ended on Sunday, union leaders and the health care system said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">California-based Kaiser Permanente said it welcomed back about 30,000 employees who participated in the strike, which began Tuesday and ended Sunday morning. Its statement said its facilities were \u201cstaffed by physicians, experienced managers and trained staff, along with nearly 6,000 contracted nurses, clinicians and others who worked with us during the strike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Plans call for bargaining to resume this week, with a focus on \u201ceconomic issues,\u201d the statement said. While unions also raised staffing and other concerns, \u201cwages are the reason for the strike and the primary issue in negotiations,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The United Nurses Associations of California\/Union of Health Care Professionals, which represents registered nurses, pharmacists, nurse midwives and other health care professionals in California and Hawaii, said in a statement that more than 500 hospitals and clinics were impacted by the strike. It said the strike sent a message that \u201cpatient care and safe staffing must come first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It announced plans to resume bargaining later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sarina Roher, president of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, in a statement said Kaiser Permanente \u201ccannot fix its staffing and access crisis without competitive wages that retain and recruit the skilled professionals our patients depend on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation\u2019s largest not-for-profit health plans, serving 12.6 million members at 600 medical offices and 40 hospitals, largely in western U.S. states. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A planned five-day strike by thousands of registered nurses and other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[159478,347,64,38508,57,210,1141,9166,1142,24963,57768,35675,1607,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-317619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-159478","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-compensation-and-benefits","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-health-care","15":"tag-health-care-industry","16":"tag-healthcare","17":"tag-labor-unions","18":"tag-nursing-care","19":"tag-nursing-homes","20":"tag-strikes","21":"tag-u-s-news","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115404433190125926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317619","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=317619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}