- 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees have gone on strike after failing to reach a contract agreement.
- The strike began Wednesday morning and is the largest healthcare strike in US history.
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare employees across the country went on strike Wednesday morning.
It is the largest healthcare strike the US has ever seen.
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and the healthcare company failed to reach a contract agreement by the September 30 deadline. As a result, healthcare workers across five states and Washington, DC, walked out to join the picket line. The strike will last through October 7, according to union officials, barring a contract agreement.
This historic strike comes over a month after the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions announced they’d be holding a strike authorization vote among their 85,000 unionized employees in eight states and Washington, DC, throughout September.
Now, strikes are happening in California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Virginia and Washington, DC.
