More than 21,000 Kaiser Permanente Caregivers to Strike Statewide on January 31
This week, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) notified Kaiser Permanente of the union’s intent to engage in a 24-hour statewide strike on January 31st.
NUHW’s 4,000 members at Kaiser will be joined by 17,000 Registered Nurses with the California Nurses Association and 650 members of the Stationary Engineers Local 39 who will be striking in sympathy with NUHW in the largest walkout in the HMO’s history.
The January 31st walkout will be the fourth time NUHW Kaiser workers have walked the picket line since they began bargaining in 2010. Last September, NUHW members were joined by CNA RNs who struck in sympathy, for a total of 21,000 Kaiser workers on strike. This month’s action will exceed that total by an additional 650 workers.
Despite record profits over the last three years of more than $5.6 billion, Kaiser management is insisting on major reductions to workers’ healthcare coverage and retirement benefits. NUHW members are committed to holding the line against these cuts, which Kaiser intends to impose upon tens of thousands more employees represented by other unions as their contracts come up for renewal over the next several years.
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