Healthcare workers within the coalition remain ready to meet at any time. Kaiser Permanente says it will work with union leaders “to reconvene bargaining as soon as possible.”Ĭaroline Lucas, a spokesperson for the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, said in a statement Wednesday night: “Frontline healthcare workers are awaiting a meaningful response from Kaiser executives regarding some of our key priorities including safe staffing, outsourcing protections for incumbent healthcare workers, and fair wages to reduce turnover. “While we have not reached a contract settlement, we have been able to reach a number of tentative agreements in bargaining, and our offers to date address the unions’ priorities,” the statement says. The strike began at 6 am local time, and will run through Saturday morning.īargaining sessions between the coalition and Kaiser Permanente ended Wednesday without a settlement, but “a number of tentative agreements in bargaining” have been reached, Kaiser Permanente said in a statement Wednesday. The vast majority of the striking workers are in West Coast states. The striking employees, who work across California, Colorado, Washington, Virginia, Oregon and Washington, DC, are represented by a coalition of unions that comprise 40% of Kaiser Permanente’s total staff. On Wednesday, more than 75,000 unionized employees of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health providers, walked off the job, marking the largest health care worker strike in US history.

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