October 4, 2023- At Kaiser Permanente hospitals, over 75,000 healthcare workers have gone on strike starting October 4, 2023 in Virginia, California and three other states over wages and staffing shortages.
Kaiser Permanente, the non-profit company based in Oakland, California, provides healthcare to nearly 13 million people in 39 hospitals nationwide. The strike was approved for three days by Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions in California, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington, and one day in Virginia and Washington, D.C. The Coalition represents 85,000 of the health system’s employees.
Those participating in the strike include licensed vocational nurses, home health aides, ultrasound sonographers, technicians in radiology, X-ray, surgical, pharmacy, and emergency departments.