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Finally, they said, California was poised to become a national leader in mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their optimism about that law, Senate Bill 855, has been fraying ever since. Advocates say health plans routinely fail to ensure enough mental health providers accept their coverage, making patients wait too long before being seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Last week, the Department of Managed Health Care unveiled news of a historic $200 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente for failing to provide patients with\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-permanente-california-behavioral-health-settlement/\"> timely mental health appointments\u003c/a>, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such issues will take center stage on Wednesday at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/mental-health-and-addiction\">special oversight hearing\u003c/a> of the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health and Addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, chair of the committee and author of the California Mental Health Parity Act, says he shares many of the mental health advocates’ concerns. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco\"]‘We know the plans have a long history of finding ways not to cover mental health treatment. The whole purpose of this law is to put an end to that.’[/pullquote] “We know the plans have a long history of finding ways not to cover mental health treatment,” he told CalMatters. “The whole purpose of this law is to put an end to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the passage of the 2020 law, the state only required health plans to cover medically necessary treatment of nine serious mental illnesses. For years, mental health advocates have tried and failed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-mental-health-care-parity/\">expand that list\u003c/a>. With Wiener’s law, they were finally triumphant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in January 2021, the state has required plans to pay for treatment of a much more extensive array of mental health issues, along with substance use disorder and addiction. This state law is separate from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/topics/managed-care-insurance/parity-law-resources\">federal mental health parity\u003c/a> law passed in 2008. The concept of “parity” refers to requiring insurers to treat mental and physical health conditions equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health plans say they “have been diligently working in good faith” to comply with these laws while facing industry-wide challenges like workforce shortages. They say they are navigating guidelines that are ambiguous and uneven while waiting for the Department of Managed Health Care to finalize regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This creates a situation of moving goalposts for plans, providers, and our enrollees,” said Mary Ellen Grant, spokesperson for the California Association of Health Plans, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mental health parity investigations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mental health advocates have also long criticized the Department of Managed Health Care, which oversees health plans in the state that receive monthly fees to provide health care for their members. And they, too, are concerned that it’s taking so long for the official rules to be decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, more than a dozen advocacy groups signed a letter of concern to the department, questioning its commitment to enforcing some aspects of\u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Comments-to-DMHC-on-BH-Investigations_DRAFT.pdf\"> the new state parity law\u003c/a>. The organizations want the department to publish and publicize its investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still a relatively secret process,” said Lauren Finke, a policy director at The Kennedy Forum, a national organization that cosponsored California’s parity legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser workers on strike in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Managed Health Care declined to make anyone available to speak with CalMatters until later this fall. In an email, a representative said the department “is committed to ensuring enrollees have appropriate access to behavioral health care when they need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to advocates’ critiques that the department isn’t adequately analyzing and publicizing how well plans are complying with state parity law, the department said in a statement that it is evaluating health plans’ compliance in other ways; including that analysis in the behavioral health investigations would slow them down too much, the statement said. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Meiram Bendat, attorney and psychotherapist, Santa Barbara\"]‘The historic network inadequacy around the state and the lack of meaningful fines, that’s a real failure on the part of the department.’[/pullquote] Meiram Bendat, a Santa Barbara attorney and psychotherapist who focuses on mental health parity, says that the three-year-old state law has improved patients’ ability to receive mental health care by creating a uniform definition of what is considered “medically necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to ensuring that health plans maintain adequate provider networks, he said, the department is “failing miserably.” Too often, plans offer their members only outdated lists of providers who then prove to be unavailable, Bendat said. The Department of Managed Health Care hasn’t adequately held plans accountable for this and other problematic practices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The historic network inadequacy around the state and the lack of meaningful fines, that’s a real failure on the part of the department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kaiser mental health settlement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Finke, of The Kennedy Forum, called the Kaiser settlement “long overdue” and “a very important first step in the Department holding plans more accountable for their performance [or lack thereof].” The settlement includes a $50 million fine and corrective action plan as well as a commitment by Kaiser to invest an additional $150 million over five years to improve behavioral health services. [aside label='More on Around California' tag='california-law'] But Finke and others also said the settlement itself provides evidence of the department’s failures to enforce a previous \u003ca href=\"https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2895/1500394196511.pdf\">settlement agreement\u003c/a> with Kaiser from 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will DMHC do its job going forward? That’s the big question,” asked Fred Seavey, research director for the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The union represents 2,000 Kaiser mental health workers in Northern California who undertook a 10-week strike last year over heavy clinician workloads and long wait times for appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he wrote complaints to the Department of Managed Health Care earlier this year, saying that Kaiser in Southern California has been illegally restricting the scope of behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said, in an emailed statement, that “any accusation that we intentionally limit or restrict needed care is untrue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Kaiser members receive a wide range of behavioral health clinical offerings, the statement said. Despite a statewide shortage of clinicians, Kaiser is “doing all that we can” to expand its network of mental health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A 2020 California law expanded the number of mental health conditions that insurers must cover. 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Finally, they said, California was poised to become a national leader in mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their optimism about that law, Senate Bill 855, has been fraying ever since. Advocates say health plans routinely fail to ensure enough mental health providers accept their coverage, making patients wait too long before being seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: Last week, the Department of Managed Health Care unveiled news of a historic $200 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente for failing to provide patients with\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-permanente-california-behavioral-health-settlement/\"> timely mental health appointments\u003c/a>, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such issues will take center stage on Wednesday at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/mental-health-and-addiction\">special oversight hearing\u003c/a> of the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health and Addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, chair of the committee and author of the California Mental Health Parity Act, says he shares many of the mental health advocates’ concerns. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We know the plans have a long history of finding ways not to cover mental health treatment. The whole purpose of this law is to put an end to that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “We know the plans have a long history of finding ways not to cover mental health treatment,” he told CalMatters. “The whole purpose of this law is to put an end to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the passage of the 2020 law, the state only required health plans to cover medically necessary treatment of nine serious mental illnesses. For years, mental health advocates have tried and failed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-mental-health-care-parity/\">expand that list\u003c/a>. With Wiener’s law, they were finally triumphant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in January 2021, the state has required plans to pay for treatment of a much more extensive array of mental health issues, along with substance use disorder and addiction. This state law is separate from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/topics/managed-care-insurance/parity-law-resources\">federal mental health parity\u003c/a> law passed in 2008. The concept of “parity” refers to requiring insurers to treat mental and physical health conditions equally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health plans say they “have been diligently working in good faith” to comply with these laws while facing industry-wide challenges like workforce shortages. They say they are navigating guidelines that are ambiguous and uneven while waiting for the Department of Managed Health Care to finalize regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This creates a situation of moving goalposts for plans, providers, and our enrollees,” said Mary Ellen Grant, spokesperson for the California Association of Health Plans, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mental health parity investigations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mental health advocates have also long criticized the Department of Managed Health Care, which oversees health plans in the state that receive monthly fees to provide health care for their members. And they, too, are concerned that it’s taking so long for the official rules to be decided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, more than a dozen advocacy groups signed a letter of concern to the department, questioning its commitment to enforcing some aspects of\u003ca href=\"https://steinberginstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Comments-to-DMHC-on-BH-Investigations_DRAFT.pdf\"> the new state parity law\u003c/a>. The organizations want the department to publish and publicize its investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still a relatively secret process,” said Lauren Finke, a policy director at The Kennedy Forum, a national organization that cosponsored California’s parity legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11964805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser workers on strike in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-03-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Managed Health Care declined to make anyone available to speak with CalMatters until later this fall. In an email, a representative said the department “is committed to ensuring enrollees have appropriate access to behavioral health care when they need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to advocates’ critiques that the department isn’t adequately analyzing and publicizing how well plans are complying with state parity law, the department said in a statement that it is evaluating health plans’ compliance in other ways; including that analysis in the behavioral health investigations would slow them down too much, the statement said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The historic network inadequacy around the state and the lack of meaningful fines, that’s a real failure on the part of the department.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Meiram Bendat, attorney and psychotherapist, Santa Barbara","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Meiram Bendat, a Santa Barbara attorney and psychotherapist who focuses on mental health parity, says that the three-year-old state law has improved patients’ ability to receive mental health care by creating a uniform definition of what is considered “medically necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to ensuring that health plans maintain adequate provider networks, he said, the department is “failing miserably.” Too often, plans offer their members only outdated lists of providers who then prove to be unavailable, Bendat said. The Department of Managed Health Care hasn’t adequately held plans accountable for this and other problematic practices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The historic network inadequacy around the state and the lack of meaningful fines, that’s a real failure on the part of the department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kaiser mental health settlement\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Finke, of The Kennedy Forum, called the Kaiser settlement “long overdue” and “a very important first step in the Department holding plans more accountable for their performance [or lack thereof].” The settlement includes a $50 million fine and corrective action plan as well as a commitment by Kaiser to invest an additional $150 million over five years to improve behavioral health services. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Around California ","tag":"california-law"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> But Finke and others also said the settlement itself provides evidence of the department’s failures to enforce a previous \u003ca href=\"https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2895/1500394196511.pdf\">settlement agreement\u003c/a> with Kaiser from 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will DMHC do its job going forward? That’s the big question,” asked Fred Seavey, research director for the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The union represents 2,000 Kaiser mental health workers in Northern California who undertook a 10-week strike last year over heavy clinician workloads and long wait times for appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he wrote complaints to the Department of Managed Health Care earlier this year, saying that Kaiser in Southern California has been illegally restricting the scope of behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said, in an emailed statement, that “any accusation that we intentionally limit or restrict needed care is untrue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Kaiser members receive a wide range of behavioral health clinical offerings, the statement said. Despite a statewide shortage of clinicians, Kaiser is “doing all that we can” to expand its network of mental health providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964791/californias-groundbreaking-mental-health-law-faces-scrutiny","authors":["byline_news_11964791"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_30069","news_22307","news_421","news_6637","news_31465","news_33310","news_2109","news_31651"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11964796","label":"news_18481"},"news_11964377":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11964377","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11964377","score":null,"sort":[1697217165000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kaiser-permanente-reaches-tentative-deal-with-unions-following-3-day-strike","title":"Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions Following Massive 3-Day Strike","publishDate":1697217165,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions Following Massive 3-Day Strike | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Unions representing 85,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels, the parties announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal includes setting minimum hourly wages at $25 in California, where most of Kaiser’s facilities are located, and $23 in other states. Workers will also see a 21% wage increase over four years. The ratification process is scheduled to begin next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne Esquivel, Kaiser pediatric medical assistant in Gilroy\"]‘This deal is life-changing for frontline health care workers like me, and life-saving for our patients.’[/pullquote]Both sides said they prioritized patient health care during their talks. Steve Shields, Kaiser’s senior vice president of labor relations, said the deal will not affect rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kaiser-health-care-workers-strike-b8b40ce8c082c0b8c4f1c0fb7ec38741\">three-day strike\u003c/a> last week involving tens of thousands of workers in multiple states officially ended last Saturday and workers returned to their jobs in Kaiser’s hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans. Union members said understaffing is boosting the hospital system’s profits but hurting patients, and that executives had been bargaining in bad faith during negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Millions of Americans are safer today because tens of thousands of dedicated healthcare workers fought for and won the critical resources they need and that patients need,” said Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, in a statement Friday. “This historic agreement will set a higher standard for the healthcare industry nationwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tentative agreement also includes protective terms around subcontracting and outsourcing, as well as initiatives to invest in the current workforce and address the staffing crisis. The workers’ last contract was negotiated in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an interest in helping build the health care workforce of the future,” Shields said during a news briefing Friday with both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition of unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963708/kaiser-workers-could-reauthorize-strike-if-negotiations-break-down\">had given the company notice\u003c/a> that another strike, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 8, was possible if the latest round of negotiations fell through. It also said the Oct. 31 expiration of a contract covering the Seattle area would enable another 3,000 workers to join picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the parties have achieved here in Oakland demonstrates, once again, that collective bargaining works,” said acting Secretary of Labor Julie A. Su, who helped mediate negotiations this week. “When workers have a voice and a seat at the table, it can result in historic gains for workers, their employer and our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, confirmed the deal in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aboutKP/status/1712889965095670195\">social media post\u003c/a> on Friday, noting that the strike notice for November “has been canceled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/seiu_uhw/status/1712787147978321951\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden applauded the tentative deal in a statement Friday, echoing his support for the health care unions. The president last month joined \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/president-joe-biden-strike-united-auto-workers-8ecc84eeca15c99673f31bdac6921f7b\">picketing United Auto Workers in Michigan\u003c/a> on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers, becoming the first known sitting president in U.S. history to join an active picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We owe a tremendous debt to health care workers and the hard-working men and women who make their work possible,” Biden said in a statement. “Health care workers and support staff kept our hospitals — and our nation — going during the dark months of the pandemic. They had our backs during one of our nation’s toughest times. We must continue to have theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s three-day strike at facilities in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington state was a last resort after Kaiser executives ignored the short-staffing crisis worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, union officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Kaiser Permanente' tag='kaiser-permanente']“This deal is life-changing for frontline health care workers like me, and life-saving for our patients,” said Yvonne Esquivel, a pediatric medical assistant at Kaiser Permanente in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal was to bring the problems to the public’s consciousness for support, according to the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new [four-year] agreement will offer Coalition-represented employees competitive wages, excellent benefits, generous retirement income plans, and valuable job training opportunities that support their economic well-being, advance our shared mission, and keep Kaiser Permanente a best place to work and receive care,” read a joint-statement from Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikers include licensed vocational nurses, home health aides and ultrasound sonographers, as well as technicians in the radiology, X-ray, surgical, pharmacy and emergency departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No health care worker wants to go on strike,” Caroline Lucas, the coalition’s executive director, said Thursday. “I hope that the last few days have helped escalate this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company warned the work stoppage could cause delays in people getting appointments and scheduling non-urgent procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing Kaiser workers in August asked for a $25 hourly minimum wage, as well as increases of 7% each year in the first two years and 6.25% each year in the two years afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which turned a $2.1 billion profit for the quarter, said in a statement last week that it proposed minimum hourly wages between $21 and $23 depending on the location. The company said it also completed hiring 10,000 more people, adding to the 51,000 workers the hospital system has brought on board since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes a day after Kaiser \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-permanente-california-behavioral-health-settlement/\">agreed to pay a $50 million fine\u003c/a> as part of a larger settlement with the state of California, which found major deficiencies in its delivery of behavioral health care services. The settlement requires the health care giant to provide its patients with more timely access to behavioral health care, among other improvements, and to invest an additional $150 million in those programs over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Unions representing some 85,000 Kaiser frontline health care workers, who demanded wage hikes and more robust staffing, reached a tentative agreement with the industry giant, averting the threat of a longer strike next month.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697236934,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1011},"headData":{"title":"Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions Following Massive 3-Day Strike | KQED","description":"Unions representing some 85,000 Kaiser frontline health care workers, who demanded wage hikes and more robust staffing, reached a tentative agreement with the industry giant, averting the threat of a longer strike next month.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions Following Massive 3-Day Strike","datePublished":"2023-10-13T17:12:45.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-13T22:42:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11964377/kaiser-permanente-reaches-tentative-deal-with-unions-following-3-day-strike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Unions representing 85,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following a strike over wages and staffing levels, the parties announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal includes setting minimum hourly wages at $25 in California, where most of Kaiser’s facilities are located, and $23 in other states. Workers will also see a 21% wage increase over four years. The ratification process is scheduled to begin next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This deal is life-changing for frontline health care workers like me, and life-saving for our patients.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Yvonne Esquivel, Kaiser pediatric medical assistant in Gilroy","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Both sides said they prioritized patient health care during their talks. Steve Shields, Kaiser’s senior vice president of labor relations, said the deal will not affect rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kaiser-health-care-workers-strike-b8b40ce8c082c0b8c4f1c0fb7ec38741\">three-day strike\u003c/a> last week involving tens of thousands of workers in multiple states officially ended last Saturday and workers returned to their jobs in Kaiser’s hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans. Union members said understaffing is boosting the hospital system’s profits but hurting patients, and that executives had been bargaining in bad faith during negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Millions of Americans are safer today because tens of thousands of dedicated healthcare workers fought for and won the critical resources they need and that patients need,” said Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, in a statement Friday. “This historic agreement will set a higher standard for the healthcare industry nationwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tentative agreement also includes protective terms around subcontracting and outsourcing, as well as initiatives to invest in the current workforce and address the staffing crisis. The workers’ last contract was negotiated in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an interest in helping build the health care workforce of the future,” Shields said during a news briefing Friday with both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition of unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963708/kaiser-workers-could-reauthorize-strike-if-negotiations-break-down\">had given the company notice\u003c/a> that another strike, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 8, was possible if the latest round of negotiations fell through. It also said the Oct. 31 expiration of a contract covering the Seattle area would enable another 3,000 workers to join picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the parties have achieved here in Oakland demonstrates, once again, that collective bargaining works,” said acting Secretary of Labor Julie A. Su, who helped mediate negotiations this week. “When workers have a voice and a seat at the table, it can result in historic gains for workers, their employer and our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, confirmed the deal in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aboutKP/status/1712889965095670195\">social media post\u003c/a> on Friday, noting that the strike notice for November “has been canceled.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1712787147978321951"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden applauded the tentative deal in a statement Friday, echoing his support for the health care unions. The president last month joined \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/president-joe-biden-strike-united-auto-workers-8ecc84eeca15c99673f31bdac6921f7b\">picketing United Auto Workers in Michigan\u003c/a> on the 12th day of their strike against major carmakers, becoming the first known sitting president in U.S. history to join an active picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We owe a tremendous debt to health care workers and the hard-working men and women who make their work possible,” Biden said in a statement. “Health care workers and support staff kept our hospitals — and our nation — going during the dark months of the pandemic. They had our backs during one of our nation’s toughest times. We must continue to have theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s three-day strike at facilities in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington state was a last resort after Kaiser executives ignored the short-staffing crisis worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, union officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Kaiser Permanente ","tag":"kaiser-permanente"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This deal is life-changing for frontline health care workers like me, and life-saving for our patients,” said Yvonne Esquivel, a pediatric medical assistant at Kaiser Permanente in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal was to bring the problems to the public’s consciousness for support, according to the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new [four-year] agreement will offer Coalition-represented employees competitive wages, excellent benefits, generous retirement income plans, and valuable job training opportunities that support their economic well-being, advance our shared mission, and keep Kaiser Permanente a best place to work and receive care,” read a joint-statement from Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikers include licensed vocational nurses, home health aides and ultrasound sonographers, as well as technicians in the radiology, X-ray, surgical, pharmacy and emergency departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No health care worker wants to go on strike,” Caroline Lucas, the coalition’s executive director, said Thursday. “I hope that the last few days have helped escalate this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company warned the work stoppage could cause delays in people getting appointments and scheduling non-urgent procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing Kaiser workers in August asked for a $25 hourly minimum wage, as well as increases of 7% each year in the first two years and 6.25% each year in the two years afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which turned a $2.1 billion profit for the quarter, said in a statement last week that it proposed minimum hourly wages between $21 and $23 depending on the location. The company said it also completed hiring 10,000 more people, adding to the 51,000 workers the hospital system has brought on board since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes a day after Kaiser \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-permanente-california-behavioral-health-settlement/\">agreed to pay a $50 million fine\u003c/a> as part of a larger settlement with the state of California, which found major deficiencies in its delivery of behavioral health care services. The settlement requires the health care giant to provide its patients with more timely access to behavioral health care, among other improvements, and to invest an additional $150 million in those programs over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964377/kaiser-permanente-reaches-tentative-deal-with-unions-following-3-day-strike","authors":["byline_news_11964377"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_683","news_24939","news_32885","news_421","news_31465","news_24590","news_1901"],"featImg":"news_11964381","label":"news"},"news_11964043":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11964043","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11964043","score":null,"sort":[1696984942000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kaiser-frontline-workers-warn-of-longer-strike-next-month-if-negotiations-fall-through","title":"Kaiser Frontline Workers Warn of Longer Strike Next Month if Negotiations Fall Through","publishDate":1696984942,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Kaiser Frontline Workers Warn of Longer Strike Next Month if Negotiations Fall Through | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A week after tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees across the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963306/kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area\">staged a three-day walkout\u003c/a> demanding higher wages and more robust staffing, the unions representing them warned on Tuesday of a longer strike early next month if upcoming negotiations with the company prove unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next bargaining sessions are scheduled for later this week, with Julie Su, the acting U.S. secretary of labor, expected to mediate, according to the union coalition representing Kaiser employees. Anything short of a fair deal will result in a subsequent strike starting on Nov. 1 and lasting until Nov. 8, coalition representatives told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t stand up for our work, they’re going to continue treating us the way they are treating us,” said Drenda Sims, a receptionist in the OB-GYN department at Kaiser’s Oakland facility.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"kaiser-strike\"]Sims participated in last week’s walkout, which marked the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. And like many of her colleagues, she said she hopes another strike will be averted, but is prepared to join the picket line again if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a good feeling,” she said. “But it’s for the cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor coalition, comprised of chapters of the Service Employees International Union and the Office and Professional Employees International Union, represent a wide range of Kaiser frontline workers, including respiratory therapists, X-ray technicians, behavioral health workers and pharmacists, among many other positions. Doctors and nurses, however, are not involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalition officials say limiting how much Kaiser can outsource and subcontract workers remains a major sticking point in the ongoing negotiations with the massive health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The critical issues that are outstanding really are still a long-term comprehensive solution to the Kaiser short-staffing crisis,” Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, told KQED on Tuesday, arguing that simply outsourcing the work, as she says Kaiser has considered, is not a remedy. “We need common sense limitations on subcontracting and outsourcing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s strike included nearly 75,000 Kaiser workers from facilities in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The majority of the strikers were located in California, with some 23,000 joining picket lines in the Bay Area alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to significant staffing increases, workers are pushing for a 6.5% wage hike in the first two years of their next contract, and a 5.75% increase the following two years. They are also seeking to raise the minimum wage among workers in the union to $26 by 2026. Kaiser’s current minimum wage varies by region, but many places offer just under $20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last round of negotiations, union officials rejected \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/content/dam/kp/mykp/documents/infographics-pdf/new-offer-infographic_100123_5pm.pdf\">Kaiser’s offer (PDF)\u003c/a> of 4% across-the-board wage increases for all Northern California workers for the next two years, and 3% for the following two years, in addition to a minimum performance bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser also recently offered a $23-per-hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser Permanente remains committed to reaching an agreement that is good for our employees, our members, and our organization, and we will continue to bargain in good faith,” the Oakland-based company said in an email to KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of negotiations with the labor coalition, Kaiser has also vowed to accelerate the pace of hiring and add 10,000 new employees nationwide by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the company is on track to surpass that goal, union officials say it’s still not enough to make up for the burnout and turnover fueled by the pandemic, that has left many facilities severely understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This week, Kaiser executives will have another opportunity to listen to frontline staff,” said Lucas, the union coalition leader, “and to begin investing in ways that will solve the Kaiser short-staffing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If this week's negotiations with the company are unsuccessful, some 75,000 Kaiser employees — including thousands in the Bay Area — plan to walk off the job again next month, from Nov. 1 until Nov. 8, according to the union coalition representing the workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697046985,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":687},"headData":{"title":"Kaiser Frontline Workers Warn of Longer Strike Next Month if Negotiations Fall Through | KQED","description":"If this week's negotiations with the company are unsuccessful, some 75,000 Kaiser employees — including thousands in the Bay Area — plan to walk off the job again next month, from Nov. 1 until Nov. 8, according to the union coalition representing the workers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Kaiser Frontline Workers Warn of Longer Strike Next Month if Negotiations Fall Through","datePublished":"2023-10-11T00:42:22.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-11T17:56:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11964043/kaiser-frontline-workers-warn-of-longer-strike-next-month-if-negotiations-fall-through","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A week after tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees across the country \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963306/kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area\">staged a three-day walkout\u003c/a> demanding higher wages and more robust staffing, the unions representing them warned on Tuesday of a longer strike early next month if upcoming negotiations with the company prove unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next bargaining sessions are scheduled for later this week, with Julie Su, the acting U.S. secretary of labor, expected to mediate, according to the union coalition representing Kaiser employees. Anything short of a fair deal will result in a subsequent strike starting on Nov. 1 and lasting until Nov. 8, coalition representatives told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t stand up for our work, they’re going to continue treating us the way they are treating us,” said Drenda Sims, a receptionist in the OB-GYN department at Kaiser’s Oakland facility.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"kaiser-strike"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sims participated in last week’s walkout, which marked the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. And like many of her colleagues, she said she hopes another strike will be averted, but is prepared to join the picket line again if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a good feeling,” she said. “But it’s for the cause.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor coalition, comprised of chapters of the Service Employees International Union and the Office and Professional Employees International Union, represent a wide range of Kaiser frontline workers, including respiratory therapists, X-ray technicians, behavioral health workers and pharmacists, among many other positions. Doctors and nurses, however, are not involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalition officials say limiting how much Kaiser can outsource and subcontract workers remains a major sticking point in the ongoing negotiations with the massive health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The critical issues that are outstanding really are still a long-term comprehensive solution to the Kaiser short-staffing crisis,” Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, told KQED on Tuesday, arguing that simply outsourcing the work, as she says Kaiser has considered, is not a remedy. “We need common sense limitations on subcontracting and outsourcing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s strike included nearly 75,000 Kaiser workers from facilities in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The majority of the strikers were located in California, with some 23,000 joining picket lines in the Bay Area alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to significant staffing increases, workers are pushing for a 6.5% wage hike in the first two years of their next contract, and a 5.75% increase the following two years. They are also seeking to raise the minimum wage among workers in the union to $26 by 2026. Kaiser’s current minimum wage varies by region, but many places offer just under $20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last round of negotiations, union officials rejected \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/content/dam/kp/mykp/documents/infographics-pdf/new-offer-infographic_100123_5pm.pdf\">Kaiser’s offer (PDF)\u003c/a> of 4% across-the-board wage increases for all Northern California workers for the next two years, and 3% for the following two years, in addition to a minimum performance bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser also recently offered a $23-per-hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser Permanente remains committed to reaching an agreement that is good for our employees, our members, and our organization, and we will continue to bargain in good faith,” the Oakland-based company said in an email to KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of negotiations with the labor coalition, Kaiser has also vowed to accelerate the pace of hiring and add 10,000 new employees nationwide by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the company is on track to surpass that goal, union officials say it’s still not enough to make up for the burnout and turnover fueled by the pandemic, that has left many facilities severely understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This week, Kaiser executives will have another opportunity to listen to frontline staff,” said Lucas, the union coalition leader, “and to begin investing in ways that will solve the Kaiser short-staffing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964043/kaiser-frontline-workers-warn-of-longer-strike-next-month-if-negotiations-fall-through","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_683","news_421","news_31465","news_33310","news_33311"],"featImg":"news_11963445","label":"news"},"news_11963708":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963708","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963708","score":null,"sort":[1696705243000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kaiser-workers-could-reauthorize-strike-if-negotiations-break-down","title":"Kaiser Workers Could Reauthorize Strike if Negotiations Break Down","publishDate":1696705243,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Kaiser Workers Could Reauthorize Strike if Negotiations Break Down | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente health care \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963568/kaiser-strike-to-end-saturday-but-negotiations-will-continue\">employees could continue to strike\u003c/a> after Saturday’s scheduled end if negotiations with their employer aren’t successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 23,000 Kaiser employees in the Bay Area walked off the job on Wednesday for what has been recognized as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963306/kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area\">largest health care worker strike\u003c/a> in U.S. history. The strike — which includes tens of thousands more Kaiser employees in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — is slated to end on Saturday morning at 6 a.m., and the next bargaining session is scheduled for Oct. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, the coalition of unions representing Kaiser employees said they could authorize another strike in the near future if bargaining continues to stand still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be at least a 10-day notice before the strike might resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that the coalition will issue a 10-day strike notice after Saturday, which could lead to further striking by Kaiser employees after those ten days if Kaiser executives continue to commit unfair labor practices and bargain in bad faith,” the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions said in a press statement on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sides held negotiations earlier this week but were not able to reach an agreement before tens of thousands of Kaiser employees took to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963306/kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area\">picket lines\u003c/a> early Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser workers on strike this week include ultrasound sonographers, X-ray technicians, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, transporters, medical assistants and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employees are demanding higher wages and increased staffing to slow burnout and turnover after millions of health care professionals left the field during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frontline healthcare workers continue to await meaningful action by Kaiser executives to address our key priorities, including safe staffing, outsourcing protections for incumbent healthcare workers, and fair wages to reduce turnover,” Gwendolyn Holloway, a contact lens technician at Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center, said in a prepared statement.[aside postID=news_11963308 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-e1696434457630-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser officials said in an email that they “look forward to reaching a new agreement that continues to provide our employees with market-leading wages and benefits, and ensures our high-quality care is affordable and available to meet our members’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 75,000 Kaiser workers across the country are currently seeking increased staffing to raise the minimum wage across the board to $26 by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser recently offered a $23-per-hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In earlier bargaining talks this year, Kaiser said it agreed to accelerate bringing on new staff and set a goal of adding 10,000 new employees represented by the Coalition by the end of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Kaiser has hired 29,000 people in 2022, and 22,000 so far in 2023. Of the new hires this year, the company said more than 9,800 are in jobs represented by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, the company said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For patients, some elective surgeries were postponed due to the strike, and COVID-19 and flu vaccine availability was also disrupted. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963308/kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected\">Read KQED’s guide for Kaiser patients during the strike and what you need to know.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next bargaining sessions are scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 12 and Friday, Oct. 13.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The strike is set to end on Oct. 7. But workers say they could authorize another strike if the next round of negotiations falls flat. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1696708767,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":570},"headData":{"title":"Kaiser Workers Could Reauthorize Strike if Negotiations Break Down | KQED","description":"The strike is set to end on Oct. 7. But workers say they could authorize another strike if the next round of negotiations falls flat. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Kaiser Workers Could Reauthorize Strike if Negotiations Break Down","datePublished":"2023-10-07T19:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-07T19:59:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11963708/kaiser-workers-could-reauthorize-strike-if-negotiations-break-down","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente health care \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963568/kaiser-strike-to-end-saturday-but-negotiations-will-continue\">employees could continue to strike\u003c/a> after Saturday’s scheduled end if negotiations with their employer aren’t successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 23,000 Kaiser employees in the Bay Area walked off the job on Wednesday for what has been recognized as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963306/kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area\">largest health care worker strike\u003c/a> in U.S. history. The strike — which includes tens of thousands more Kaiser employees in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — is slated to end on Saturday morning at 6 a.m., and the next bargaining session is scheduled for Oct. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday morning, the coalition of unions representing Kaiser employees said they could authorize another strike in the near future if bargaining continues to stand still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be at least a 10-day notice before the strike might resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that the coalition will issue a 10-day strike notice after Saturday, which could lead to further striking by Kaiser employees after those ten days if Kaiser executives continue to commit unfair labor practices and bargain in bad faith,” the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions said in a press statement on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sides held negotiations earlier this week but were not able to reach an agreement before tens of thousands of Kaiser employees took to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963306/kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area\">picket lines\u003c/a> early Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser workers on strike this week include ultrasound sonographers, X-ray technicians, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, transporters, medical assistants and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employees are demanding higher wages and increased staffing to slow burnout and turnover after millions of health care professionals left the field during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Frontline healthcare workers continue to await meaningful action by Kaiser executives to address our key priorities, including safe staffing, outsourcing protections for incumbent healthcare workers, and fair wages to reduce turnover,” Gwendolyn Holloway, a contact lens technician at Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center, said in a prepared statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11963308","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-e1696434457630-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser officials said in an email that they “look forward to reaching a new agreement that continues to provide our employees with market-leading wages and benefits, and ensures our high-quality care is affordable and available to meet our members’ needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 75,000 Kaiser workers across the country are currently seeking increased staffing to raise the minimum wage across the board to $26 by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser recently offered a $23-per-hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In earlier bargaining talks this year, Kaiser said it agreed to accelerate bringing on new staff and set a goal of adding 10,000 new employees represented by the Coalition by the end of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Kaiser has hired 29,000 people in 2022, and 22,000 so far in 2023. Of the new hires this year, the company said more than 9,800 are in jobs represented by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, the company said in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For patients, some elective surgeries were postponed due to the strike, and COVID-19 and flu vaccine availability was also disrupted. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963308/kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected\">Read KQED’s guide for Kaiser patients during the strike and what you need to know.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next bargaining sessions are scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 12 and Friday, Oct. 13.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11963708/kaiser-workers-could-reauthorize-strike-if-negotiations-break-down","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21790","news_421","news_31465"],"featImg":"news_11963436","label":"news"},"news_11963572":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963572","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963572","score":null,"sort":[1696586435000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"more-than-22000-kaiser-permanente-workers-are-on-strike","title":"More Than 22,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente Workers Are On Strike","publishDate":1696586435,"format":"audio","headTitle":"More Than 22,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente Workers Are On Strike | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From San José to Santa Rosa, more than 22,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente health care workers walked off the job Wednesday for a three-day strike, demanding better wages to help fix what they say is an urgent understaffing crisis. The effort spans 8 states and the District of Columbia, and some are calling it the largest health care strike in US history.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3882688016\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers are on strike across eight states and Washington, D.C., and many of them are right here in the Bay Area. From San Jose to Santa Rosa, workers walked off the job on Wednesday for a three-day strike demanding better wages to help fix what they say is an urgent understaffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drenda Sims: \u003c/strong>We have employees sleeping in their cars because they cannot afford the cost of living. And we need a raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, my colleague and labor correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero, joins us to talk about what health care workers want and how the strike is impacting patients. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Farida, we’re talking on Thursday morning in the middle of what I’m hearing is the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. How big are we talking here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, we’re talking about tens of thousands of workers. About 68,000 workers in California. That includes more than 22,000 employees in the Bay Area. We’re talking about people who work in labs, radiology technicians, receptionist, medical assistance, people that work in the operating room. These are really the folks that make Kaiser Services run. Kaiser, you know, has become a really large health care provider. They serve nearly 13 million people across the country, most of them in California. So we’re talking about a really big organization that is nonprofit in large part. But we’re also seeing the same, you know, tensions for the workforce here that was absolutely, you know, brought to the forefront because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I think we all know health care workers have really been through so much during the pandemic. So what are the concerns and issues being raised by these workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>These workers want Kaiser to invest in higher wages across the board so that they can deal with the higher cost of living, especially in markets like the Bay Area. And they also want Kaiser to make investments to increase the minimum wage for workers across the board to be able to attract more people that can help address this understaffing problem that you hear employees talking about all the time. Since that pandemic, there’s been an exodus of millions of workers in the health care industry. Employees at Kaiser feel that because it’s an organization that is mostly nonprofit, they have a higher responsibility to invest more in their employees. Often, you know, when I spoken with Kaiser Health Care Workers, they feel underappreciated. People tell me, Hey, I risked my life during the pandemic to come to the hospital. I just want to be paid a little more than a 3% wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Jones: \u003c/strong>I’ve caught Covid twice, and I still work for Kaiser. You know, I put my life at risk. You know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Michael Jones and every other employee who I spoke with at the picket lines had two main messages. They say they’re calling for fair wages and they say they’re calling for Kaiser to really increase the number of people employed by the organization in health care services so that they can take better care of their patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Jones: \u003c/strong>For Kaiser to say that they can find somebody, to find other workers that don’t care for other workers that are better and cheaper. That’s a slap in the face. We’re not going anywhere. So you need to train people, right, and give them their justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Sometimes I think something that comes through a lot when you speak with health care workers is they’re really passionate about their jobs. You know, they feel like it’s really a calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Jones: \u003c/strong>You know, But my ultimate goal is to help those who are underprivileged and those who need the help. And that’s why I work in health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>So it’s not just about their economic well-being, but also you hear it in the same breath, you know, almost like I want my patients to be okay. I don’t want them to be waiting, you know, while they’re in pain. And so I think they’re really wanting Kaiser as an organization to invest a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Before they went on strike, the coalition of Kaiser Permanente unions demanded a 7% pay increase per year for two years, followed by a 6.25% annual increase for two years after that. Kaiser’s initial offer was more like 3% per year. Unions also wanted a minimum wage of $25 an hour in California. So far, Kaiser has offered $23 an hour at the negotiating table. Workers who are on strike say both of these demands will help to address the understaffing crisis they’ve been facing. Frieda, what has Kaiser said in response to all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yes, we’ve asked Kaiser several times for an interview. We have not been able to speak with anyone, but they have issued several statements. One of the main points that they have is that they offer competitive wages and of the markets where they operate. They say they’re really like market leading. And they’ve said things like, you know, if workers were to leave Kaiser, they would actually be taking a pick up if they go work somewhere else. The other thing they say is that they have a lower attrition rate, so turnover than other, you know, companies in health care. They say that they’re very committed to taking care of their employees, but they also need to make sure that care remains affordable for the millions of people that Kaiser serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>So we’re talking about a lot of health care costs that Kaiser has to, you know, factor in and make the kind of investments that the unions are asking for. I do have to say, though, they have been making profits for several years in recent years, except for one. One year, I think it was last year. They are trying to invest more in properties that are growing. You know, we see Kaiser being advertised at Chase Center and other places around the Bay Area. Executive compensation, millions of dollars, you know, for several people and their executive team. And that’s the base salary. So I think workers who are striking see all that and they say, hey, I think Kaiser seems to be doing well and we want to be able to get a little bit more for ourselves so that we can continue working and in health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I’m sure listeners are also wondering how this strike is going to impact them. I’m definitely one of those people. Have people seen any disruptions so far to the care that they there they go to Kaiser for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Emergency operations, their emergency departments, their hospitals, Those kinds of services are continuing to operate. They brought in thousands of contract workers, but their physicians, their doctors are not part of this strike. So doctors are still working and they have some staffers. The overwhelming majority of people in the union voted to authorize the strike. But, you know, some staffers decided to keep working. But if you’re looking for pharmacy services, maybe radiology, going to see the optometrist, all of those services may be closed or working with reduced hours. And some of those locations is what Kaiser said. The other thing that Kaiser started doing as rescheduling what they consider non-emergency surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>My name is Laveida Spence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Laveida is a 78 year old lady who I met crossing the street in Oakland, going from the Oakland Medical Center, where hundreds of workers were crowding the sidewalks. You know, there was music, cars honking, all of this activity. And then I met her on the way to another facility because they moved their COVID and flu vaccination clinic out of the Oakland Medical Center to a nearby building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>So I got there and they told me I had to come to the Fabiola building. I met her all day, as you can tell from my breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She has issues with her lower back trouble walking. And here she was huffing and puffing, you know, trying to get to her COVID vaccine somewhere else. And she said she got the wrong information from the app. And so she just wanted Kaiser to, you know, be able to update members and where to go when they need services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>And I wouldn’t mind coming, but you should get your app straight and have the right information for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She seemed to be, you know, one of the people in the camp where they say they they understand the reasons for the strike. They seem to be generally supportive of the health care workers, but they don’t want it to go very much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>Well, I understand the reasons for the strike and I’m in agreement with it. And as long as Kaiser can provide medical care for people that need it and emergency care, then I’m fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>What has been announced by the union is just a three day strike in California. But people are saying, hey, it could go longer. And if it does, then we’re going to see a lot more disruptions and delays to health care services for so many people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Frida, we’ve talked a lot about almost strikes and strikes lately. And this isn’t the first time that Kaiser workers have gone on strike. But what do you think this says about how health care workers are feeling right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>I mean, I think this is something shared by people working in many different industries. But definitely there’s a huge concern that wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. Now, like we were saying, in health care, it’s exacerbated even more by the feeling that, you know, workers felt like they were there, you know, when they were needed, when they had and we had this huge public health emergency. So I think the feeling for health care workers is they’ve made huge sacrifices and they deserve wage increases. They also feel like they’ve been falling behind. You know, the level of inflation are a lot more than what, you know, wages are increasing. So it’s it’s not keeping up. So those are those are basic things not only in health care, but in other industries. And one of the main reasons that we’re seeing so many strikes or threats to strike across across industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well Farida thank you so much. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Appreciate it. Thank you, Erica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Farida Jhabvala Romero, a labor correspondent for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Farida was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Producer Maria Esquinca scored this episode and added all the tape. Music courtesy of Audio Network. Shout out as well to the rest of the podcast squad here at KQED. That’s Jen Chien, director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager. We get audience engagement support from Cesar Saldana, and Holly Kernan is our chief content officer. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you for listening to the Bay, where production of members supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The effort spans 8 states and the District of Columbia, making it the largest strike of healthcare workers in U.S. history.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700689051,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":2132},"headData":{"title":"More Than 22,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente Workers Are On Strike | KQED","description":"The effort spans 8 states and the District of Columbia, making it the largest strike of healthcare workers in U.S. history.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"More Than 22,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente Workers Are On Strike","datePublished":"2023-10-06T10:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-22T21:37:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC3882688016.mp3?updated=1696538042","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11963572/more-than-22000-kaiser-permanente-workers-are-on-strike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">From San José to Santa Rosa, more than 22,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente health care workers walked off the job Wednesday for a three-day strike, demanding better wages to help fix what they say is an urgent understaffing crisis. The effort spans 8 states and the District of Columbia, and some are calling it the largest health care strike in US history.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3882688016\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers are on strike across eight states and Washington, D.C., and many of them are right here in the Bay Area. From San Jose to Santa Rosa, workers walked off the job on Wednesday for a three-day strike demanding better wages to help fix what they say is an urgent understaffing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drenda Sims: \u003c/strong>We have employees sleeping in their cars because they cannot afford the cost of living. And we need a raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, my colleague and labor correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero, joins us to talk about what health care workers want and how the strike is impacting patients. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Farida, we’re talking on Thursday morning in the middle of what I’m hearing is the largest health care worker strike in U.S. history. How big are we talking here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah, we’re talking about tens of thousands of workers. About 68,000 workers in California. That includes more than 22,000 employees in the Bay Area. We’re talking about people who work in labs, radiology technicians, receptionist, medical assistance, people that work in the operating room. These are really the folks that make Kaiser Services run. Kaiser, you know, has become a really large health care provider. They serve nearly 13 million people across the country, most of them in California. So we’re talking about a really big organization that is nonprofit in large part. But we’re also seeing the same, you know, tensions for the workforce here that was absolutely, you know, brought to the forefront because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I think we all know health care workers have really been through so much during the pandemic. So what are the concerns and issues being raised by these workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>These workers want Kaiser to invest in higher wages across the board so that they can deal with the higher cost of living, especially in markets like the Bay Area. And they also want Kaiser to make investments to increase the minimum wage for workers across the board to be able to attract more people that can help address this understaffing problem that you hear employees talking about all the time. Since that pandemic, there’s been an exodus of millions of workers in the health care industry. Employees at Kaiser feel that because it’s an organization that is mostly nonprofit, they have a higher responsibility to invest more in their employees. Often, you know, when I spoken with Kaiser Health Care Workers, they feel underappreciated. People tell me, Hey, I risked my life during the pandemic to come to the hospital. I just want to be paid a little more than a 3% wage increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Jones: \u003c/strong>I’ve caught Covid twice, and I still work for Kaiser. You know, I put my life at risk. You know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Michael Jones and every other employee who I spoke with at the picket lines had two main messages. They say they’re calling for fair wages and they say they’re calling for Kaiser to really increase the number of people employed by the organization in health care services so that they can take better care of their patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Jones: \u003c/strong>For Kaiser to say that they can find somebody, to find other workers that don’t care for other workers that are better and cheaper. That’s a slap in the face. We’re not going anywhere. So you need to train people, right, and give them their justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Sometimes I think something that comes through a lot when you speak with health care workers is they’re really passionate about their jobs. You know, they feel like it’s really a calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Jones: \u003c/strong>You know, But my ultimate goal is to help those who are underprivileged and those who need the help. And that’s why I work in health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>So it’s not just about their economic well-being, but also you hear it in the same breath, you know, almost like I want my patients to be okay. I don’t want them to be waiting, you know, while they’re in pain. And so I think they’re really wanting Kaiser as an organization to invest a lot more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Before they went on strike, the coalition of Kaiser Permanente unions demanded a 7% pay increase per year for two years, followed by a 6.25% annual increase for two years after that. Kaiser’s initial offer was more like 3% per year. Unions also wanted a minimum wage of $25 an hour in California. So far, Kaiser has offered $23 an hour at the negotiating table. Workers who are on strike say both of these demands will help to address the understaffing crisis they’ve been facing. Frieda, what has Kaiser said in response to all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Yes, we’ve asked Kaiser several times for an interview. We have not been able to speak with anyone, but they have issued several statements. One of the main points that they have is that they offer competitive wages and of the markets where they operate. They say they’re really like market leading. And they’ve said things like, you know, if workers were to leave Kaiser, they would actually be taking a pick up if they go work somewhere else. The other thing they say is that they have a lower attrition rate, so turnover than other, you know, companies in health care. They say that they’re very committed to taking care of their employees, but they also need to make sure that care remains affordable for the millions of people that Kaiser serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>So we’re talking about a lot of health care costs that Kaiser has to, you know, factor in and make the kind of investments that the unions are asking for. I do have to say, though, they have been making profits for several years in recent years, except for one. One year, I think it was last year. They are trying to invest more in properties that are growing. You know, we see Kaiser being advertised at Chase Center and other places around the Bay Area. Executive compensation, millions of dollars, you know, for several people and their executive team. And that’s the base salary. So I think workers who are striking see all that and they say, hey, I think Kaiser seems to be doing well and we want to be able to get a little bit more for ourselves so that we can continue working and in health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I’m sure listeners are also wondering how this strike is going to impact them. I’m definitely one of those people. Have people seen any disruptions so far to the care that they there they go to Kaiser for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Emergency operations, their emergency departments, their hospitals, Those kinds of services are continuing to operate. They brought in thousands of contract workers, but their physicians, their doctors are not part of this strike. So doctors are still working and they have some staffers. The overwhelming majority of people in the union voted to authorize the strike. But, you know, some staffers decided to keep working. But if you’re looking for pharmacy services, maybe radiology, going to see the optometrist, all of those services may be closed or working with reduced hours. And some of those locations is what Kaiser said. The other thing that Kaiser started doing as rescheduling what they consider non-emergency surgeries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>My name is Laveida Spence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Laveida is a 78 year old lady who I met crossing the street in Oakland, going from the Oakland Medical Center, where hundreds of workers were crowding the sidewalks. You know, there was music, cars honking, all of this activity. And then I met her on the way to another facility because they moved their COVID and flu vaccination clinic out of the Oakland Medical Center to a nearby building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>So I got there and they told me I had to come to the Fabiola building. I met her all day, as you can tell from my breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She has issues with her lower back trouble walking. And here she was huffing and puffing, you know, trying to get to her COVID vaccine somewhere else. And she said she got the wrong information from the app. And so she just wanted Kaiser to, you know, be able to update members and where to go when they need services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>And I wouldn’t mind coming, but you should get your app straight and have the right information for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>She seemed to be, you know, one of the people in the camp where they say they they understand the reasons for the strike. They seem to be generally supportive of the health care workers, but they don’t want it to go very much longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laveida Spence: \u003c/strong>Well, I understand the reasons for the strike and I’m in agreement with it. And as long as Kaiser can provide medical care for people that need it and emergency care, then I’m fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>What has been announced by the union is just a three day strike in California. But people are saying, hey, it could go longer. And if it does, then we’re going to see a lot more disruptions and delays to health care services for so many people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Frida, we’ve talked a lot about almost strikes and strikes lately. And this isn’t the first time that Kaiser workers have gone on strike. But what do you think this says about how health care workers are feeling right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>I mean, I think this is something shared by people working in many different industries. But definitely there’s a huge concern that wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. Now, like we were saying, in health care, it’s exacerbated even more by the feeling that, you know, workers felt like they were there, you know, when they were needed, when they had and we had this huge public health emergency. So I think the feeling for health care workers is they’ve made huge sacrifices and they deserve wage increases. They also feel like they’ve been falling behind. You know, the level of inflation are a lot more than what, you know, wages are increasing. So it’s it’s not keeping up. So those are those are basic things not only in health care, but in other industries. And one of the main reasons that we’re seeing so many strikes or threats to strike across across industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well Farida thank you so much. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero: \u003c/strong>Appreciate it. Thank you, Erica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Farida Jhabvala Romero, a labor correspondent for KQED. This 26 minute conversation with Farida was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Producer Maria Esquinca scored this episode and added all the tape. Music courtesy of Audio Network. Shout out as well to the rest of the podcast squad here at KQED. That’s Jen Chien, director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager. We get audience engagement support from Cesar Saldana, and Holly Kernan is our chief content officer. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you for listening to the Bay, where production of members supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11963572/more-than-22000-kaiser-permanente-workers-are-on-strike","authors":["8654","8659","11649","11802"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_30262","news_421","news_20482","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11963573","label":"source_news_11963572"},"news_11963306":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963306","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963306","score":null,"sort":[1696429340000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area","title":"Bay Area Kaiser Workers Strike for Higher Wages, Increased Staffing","publishDate":1696429340,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Kaiser Workers Strike for Higher Wages, Increased Staffing | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Nearly 23,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963308/kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected\">Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a> X-ray operators, surgical technicians, nursing assistants and other health care workers in the Bay Area began striking Wednesday morning as contract negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have committed to a three-day strike,” said Timothy Regan, a Kaiser health educator of 25 years who was picketing outside the San Francisco Medical Center before dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees will be striking across the Bay Area from Wednesday until 6 a.m. on Saturday, including at Kaiser hospitals in Oakland, Antioch, Fremont, Manteca, Redwood City, Richmond, San Francisco, South San Francisco, San José, Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, Vallejo and Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Kaiser workers are pushing for increased staffing and pay increases to prevent burnout after millions of health care workers left their jobs during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963407 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people hold signs in front of a large modern looking building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lily Young, Kaiser member\"]‘I support the workers and their right to unionize, the right to get fair wages and get compensation, most certainly. But the reality is that it does have an impact on patients.’[/pullquote]“Short staffing is the biggest thing that affects patient care and quality of care,” Edith Hurtado, a medical assistant at Kaiser, told KQED while picketing outside the San Francisco facility on Wednesday. “Patients have a long wait period or [are] not getting the care they need and have to wait for a medication or injection. The quality of patient care does diminish when we don’t have a full staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the three-day strike is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots\">exacerbate vaccine wait times\u003c/a> for many patients at Kaiser, which serves more than 9.4 million people across California and is one of the largest private employers in the state. Non-emergency health services including elective surgeries have been rescheduled at some locations as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some laboratory, radiology and optical locations may be closed or operating at reduced hours during the strike, a spokesperson for Kaiser told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting vaccines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lily Young has been struggling to find a booster shot for her two young children at her local Kaiser facilities in Sacramento. The strike has made her feel “very nervous” about their ability to get vaccinated before a scheduled trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About half of my friends are Kaiser members and we are all just scrambling and trying to get these COVID shots,” said Young. “I support the workers and their right to unionize, the right to get fair wages and get compensation, most certainly. But the reality is that it does have an impact on patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963445\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963445 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Employees like Hurtado, who is also a Kaiser patient, said they hope the strike will put pressure on executives to improve conditions for workers, and by extension, patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a patient here. My family are patients here. We want better quality care and full staffing,” she said. “We’re here to fight not only for us as health care workers, but for our patients as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Kaiser received its supply of COVID-19 doses in the last two weeks and currently is only accepting walk-ins. But for kids 11 and younger, an immunization appointment must be scheduled online, according to \u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/covid-19-vaccine-locations/\">the health care provider’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other retail pharmacies are gearing up to provide additional shots while the strike is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places like Walgreens will accept Kaiser insurance for vaccines and offer free shots to people who are uninsured. But some clinics charge a steep fee, and not all accept Kaiser insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Young tried to get a COVID-19 vaccine at her local Rite Aid, she was told that Kaiser was no longer reimbursing shots there. The pharmacy said the out-of-pocket cost for the shot was $190. She decided to wait it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did try to make an online appointment, and there’s just nothing available,” Young told KQED. “Now I’m just at the mercy of Kaiser to hopefully get myself, my husband, my 4-year-old and my 9-month-old vaccinated and they have been historically really slow with vaccinations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent union survey of employees showed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022-04_Report_Staffing-Survey-10.1_DIGITAL.pdf?emci=11db37e0-b5df-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=%7B%7BContactsEmailID%7D%7D\">65% of respondents have seen patients’ care delayed or denied (PDF)\u003c/a> due to recent staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963406 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt='A person holds up a sign that reads \"Kaiser Workers on ULP Strike.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jones strikes at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve caught COVID twice and I still work for Kaiser. I put my life to risk coming to work,” Michael Jones, a Kaiser medical assistant who works with autistic children, told KQED outside Oakland Medical Center on Wednesday. “For Kaiser to say they can find other workers who don’t care, that they’ll find other workers who are better and cheaper, that’s a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wage increases for staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Close to 75,000 Kaiser workers in California — as well as in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — are now demanding their employer to increase staffing and are pushing for a 6.5% wage increase in the first two years of this next contract, and a 5.75% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees are also seeking to raise the minimum wage across the board to $26 by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover Woods, who works in the operating room at Kaiser in Oakland, said workers like him “are overworked and underpaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inflation is going all the way up, everything is high. Groceries, insurance, everything,” Woods told KQED at the Oakland picket line on Wednesday. “Everything is going up except our paycheck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SaulGonzalezCA/status/1709604858700222560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent proposal, Kaiser offered California workers across-the-board wage increases of 4% for the next two years, and 3% for the following two years, as well as a minimum performance bonus aimed to prevent any employees from receiving no payout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser also \u003ca href=\"https://mykp.kp.org/content/dam/kp/mykp/documents/infographics-pdf/new-offer-infographic_100123_5pm.pdf\">recently offered (PDF)\u003c/a> a $23-per-hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"kaiser, health\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“We lead total compensation in every market where we operate, and our proposals in bargaining would ensure we keep that position,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email. “In some places, like in Southern California, a Kaiser Permanente employee leaving for a similar job at another organization would on average face a 20-plus percent pay cut and lower benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees represented by Kaiser’s coalition of labor unions voted to authorize the strike last month if a deal was not reached by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gave a 10-day notice for that and we’re waiting moment by moment for Kaiser executives to respond and say, ‘Ok, let’s actually start creating solutions that work for everybody,’” said Regan from the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Billy Cruz contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The strike is impacting COVID-19 vaccines and some 'non-emergency' surgeries for Kaiser patients. 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But the reality is that it does have an impact on patients.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lily Young, Kaiser member","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Short staffing is the biggest thing that affects patient care and quality of care,” Edith Hurtado, a medical assistant at Kaiser, told KQED while picketing outside the San Francisco facility on Wednesday. “Patients have a long wait period or [are] not getting the care they need and have to wait for a medication or injection. The quality of patient care does diminish when we don’t have a full staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the three-day strike is expected to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots\">exacerbate vaccine wait times\u003c/a> for many patients at Kaiser, which serves more than 9.4 million people across California and is one of the largest private employers in the state. Non-emergency health services including elective surgeries have been rescheduled at some locations as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some laboratory, radiology and optical locations may be closed or operating at reduced hours during the strike, a spokesperson for Kaiser told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Getting vaccines\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lily Young has been struggling to find a booster shot for her two young children at her local Kaiser facilities in Sacramento. The strike has made her feel “very nervous” about their ability to get vaccinated before a scheduled trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About half of my friends are Kaiser members and we are all just scrambling and trying to get these COVID shots,” said Young. “I support the workers and their right to unionize, the right to get fair wages and get compensation, most certainly. But the reality is that it does have an impact on patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963445\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963445 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-OAKLAND-MD-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser workers strike in front of the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Employees like Hurtado, who is also a Kaiser patient, said they hope the strike will put pressure on executives to improve conditions for workers, and by extension, patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a patient here. My family are patients here. We want better quality care and full staffing,” she said. “We’re here to fight not only for us as health care workers, but for our patients as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Kaiser received its supply of COVID-19 doses in the last two weeks and currently is only accepting walk-ins. But for kids 11 and younger, an immunization appointment must be scheduled online, according to \u003ca href=\"https://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/covid-19-vaccine-locations/\">the health care provider’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other retail pharmacies are gearing up to provide additional shots while the strike is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Places like Walgreens will accept Kaiser insurance for vaccines and offer free shots to people who are uninsured. But some clinics charge a steep fee, and not all accept Kaiser insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Young tried to get a COVID-19 vaccine at her local Rite Aid, she was told that Kaiser was no longer reimbursing shots there. The pharmacy said the out-of-pocket cost for the shot was $190. She decided to wait it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did try to make an online appointment, and there’s just nothing available,” Young told KQED. “Now I’m just at the mercy of Kaiser to hopefully get myself, my husband, my 4-year-old and my 9-month-old vaccinated and they have been historically really slow with vaccinations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent union survey of employees showed nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022-04_Report_Staffing-Survey-10.1_DIGITAL.pdf?emci=11db37e0-b5df-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=%7B%7BContactsEmailID%7D%7D\">65% of respondents have seen patients’ care delayed or denied (PDF)\u003c/a> due to recent staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11963406 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt='A person holds up a sign that reads \"Kaiser Workers on ULP Strike.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jones strikes at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve caught COVID twice and I still work for Kaiser. I put my life to risk coming to work,” Michael Jones, a Kaiser medical assistant who works with autistic children, told KQED outside Oakland Medical Center on Wednesday. “For Kaiser to say they can find other workers who don’t care, that they’ll find other workers who are better and cheaper, that’s a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wage increases for staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Close to 75,000 Kaiser workers in California — as well as in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — are now demanding their employer to increase staffing and are pushing for a 6.5% wage increase in the first two years of this next contract, and a 5.75% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees are also seeking to raise the minimum wage across the board to $26 by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grover Woods, who works in the operating room at Kaiser in Oakland, said workers like him “are overworked and underpaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inflation is going all the way up, everything is high. Groceries, insurance, everything,” Woods told KQED at the Oakland picket line on Wednesday. “Everything is going up except our paycheck.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1709604858700222560"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In a recent proposal, Kaiser offered California workers across-the-board wage increases of 4% for the next two years, and 3% for the following two years, as well as a minimum performance bonus aimed to prevent any employees from receiving no payout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser also \u003ca href=\"https://mykp.kp.org/content/dam/kp/mykp/documents/infographics-pdf/new-offer-infographic_100123_5pm.pdf\">recently offered (PDF)\u003c/a> a $23-per-hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"kaiser, health","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We lead total compensation in every market where we operate, and our proposals in bargaining would ensure we keep that position,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email. “In some places, like in Southern California, a Kaiser Permanente employee leaving for a similar job at another organization would on average face a 20-plus percent pay cut and lower benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees represented by Kaiser’s coalition of labor unions voted to authorize the strike last month if a deal was not reached by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gave a 10-day notice for that and we’re waiting moment by moment for Kaiser executives to respond and say, ‘Ok, let’s actually start creating solutions that work for everybody,’” said Regan from the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Billy Cruz contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11963306/kaiser-strike-furthers-delays-in-covid-19-vaccines-some-surgeries-in-the-bay-area","authors":["11840","8659"],"categories":["news_31795","news_457","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_21790","news_421","news_31465"],"featImg":"news_11963365","label":"news"},"news_11963308":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963308","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963308","score":null,"sort":[1696427221000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected","title":"Kaiser Strike: If You're a Patient, What Medical Services Will Be Affected?","publishDate":1696427221,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Kaiser Strike: If You’re a Patient, What Medical Services Will Be Affected? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots\">Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states went on strike\u003c/a> this morning — including in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-strike-at-california-hospitals-october/\">Kaiser controls half of California’s private insurance market\u003c/a>, and has more than 9.4 million members across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re a Kaiser patient, keep reading for what you need to know about the strike, who’s likely to be impacted and which medical services from Kaiser will be affected during this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long would a Kaiser strike last?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Right now, the Kaiser strike in California is anticipated to last at least three days. It began at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, and is expected to end at 6 a.m. on Saturday Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is on strike at Kaiser?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states, including California, went on strike today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike impacts nearly 68,000 Kaiser employees in California — 22,650 of which are in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots\">according to the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union coalition says that jobs affected by the Kaiser strike will include: licensed vocational nurses, emergency department technicians, radiology technicians, ultrasound sonographers, teleservice representatives, respiratory therapists, x-ray technicians, certified nursing assistants, dietary services, behavioral health workers, surgical technicians, pharmacy technicians, transporters, home health aides, phlebotomists, medical assistants, and housekeepers, “among hundreds of other positions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Kaiser services \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> be affected by a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Neither the nurses union nor Kaiser’s physicians will be on strike, according to a statement Kaiser emailed to KQED, which also confirms that hospitals and emergency departments will remain open during any strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hospital pharmacies for inpatient care and critical infusion services will remain in operation” as well, according to the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our facilities will be staffed by our physicians, trained and experienced managers and staff, and in some cases, we will augment with licensed and qualified contract staff,” said the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should not let any potential strike delay you from seeking care for a health emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='kaiser-permanente']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Kaiser services will be affected by a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you already have an appointment with Kaiser …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said in its statement to KQED that during the strike, “in consultation with our physicians, we may need to reschedule certain non-urgent appointments and procedures, as long as that is appropriate and safe for the patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have an existing appointment that’ll fall during the strike, Kaiser’s statement said the health system will “contact any patient affected by the strike in advance if necessary and work with them to reschedule their appointments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no need for you to call or email your doctor’s office yourself, according to Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you need a laboratory, radiology or optical service …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of our laboratory, radiology, and optical locations may be temporarily closed or operating with reduced hours during the strike,” said Kaiser. The company advises you to\u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/northern-california/front-door\"> schedule an appointment online\u003c/a> or via the KP mobile app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you need lab work, radiology or optical services urgently? In this scenario, Kaiser advises that you call their Appointment and Advice Call Center at 1-866-454-8855 (TTY 711), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of the strike, we may experience high call volumes resulting in longer than usual wait times,” notes Kaiser’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’re looking for a COVID or flu shot …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some COVID-19 and flu vaccine services may be affected if a strike occurs,” Kaiser representatives told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for either a COVID or flu shot ASAP during the strike, you can still find one at a pharmacy near you — but you’ll likely have to pay for it. Usually, if you have health insurance you should be able to give your insurer’s details at a pharmacy vaccination appointment to have the cost of your shot billed to them, but health systems like Kaiser are the exception to this, and so you almost certainly won’t be able to get your new COVID vaccine — or flu shot — at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960630/free-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2023#kaisernewcovidvaccine\">Read more about finding a new COVID vaccine near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11960630]\u003cstrong>If you need a prescription … \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s statement said that “some of our outpatient pharmacies” would be closed or operating on reduced hours in the event of a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you have a new, urgent prescription need? Kaiser says that you should use your nearest open Kaiser Permanente Pharmacy for these, and that\u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/northern-california/front-door\"> a list of open Kaiser pharmacies will be posted on the health system’s website “Tuesday evening.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our physicians and our Pharmacy representatives at each of our sites and in the Pharmacy Call Center will work with patients to ensure they get the medications they need,” said Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also use Kaiser’s mail-order delivery “for most convenient services, which delivers medications in 3 to 5 business days with no shipping fee,” according to the health system’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s hospital inpatient pharmacies will remain open, according to the health system, but Kaiser will look at “expanding” their network of pharmacies “to include community pharmacies that can serve our members during a strike and mitigate any closure of our outpatient pharmacies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"If the Kaiser strike goes ahead starting Wednesday, what do patients need to know? 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It began at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, and is expected to end at 6 a.m. on Saturday Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is on strike at Kaiser?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states, including California, went on strike today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike impacts nearly 68,000 Kaiser employees in California — 22,650 of which are in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots\">according to the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union coalition says that jobs affected by the Kaiser strike will include: licensed vocational nurses, emergency department technicians, radiology technicians, ultrasound sonographers, teleservice representatives, respiratory therapists, x-ray technicians, certified nursing assistants, dietary services, behavioral health workers, surgical technicians, pharmacy technicians, transporters, home health aides, phlebotomists, medical assistants, and housekeepers, “among hundreds of other positions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Kaiser services \u003cem>won’t\u003c/em> be affected by a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Neither the nurses union nor Kaiser’s physicians will be on strike, according to a statement Kaiser emailed to KQED, which also confirms that hospitals and emergency departments will remain open during any strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hospital pharmacies for inpatient care and critical infusion services will remain in operation” as well, according to the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our facilities will be staffed by our physicians, trained and experienced managers and staff, and in some cases, we will augment with licensed and qualified contract staff,” said the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should not let any potential strike delay you from seeking care for a health emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"kaiser-permanente"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Kaiser services will be affected by a strike?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you already have an appointment with Kaiser …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said in its statement to KQED that during the strike, “in consultation with our physicians, we may need to reschedule certain non-urgent appointments and procedures, as long as that is appropriate and safe for the patient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have an existing appointment that’ll fall during the strike, Kaiser’s statement said the health system will “contact any patient affected by the strike in advance if necessary and work with them to reschedule their appointments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no need for you to call or email your doctor’s office yourself, according to Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you need a laboratory, radiology or optical service …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of our laboratory, radiology, and optical locations may be temporarily closed or operating with reduced hours during the strike,” said Kaiser. The company advises you to\u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/northern-california/front-door\"> schedule an appointment online\u003c/a> or via the KP mobile app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you need lab work, radiology or optical services urgently? In this scenario, Kaiser advises that you call their Appointment and Advice Call Center at 1-866-454-8855 (TTY 711), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of the strike, we may experience high call volumes resulting in longer than usual wait times,” notes Kaiser’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you’re looking for a COVID or flu shot …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some COVID-19 and flu vaccine services may be affected if a strike occurs,” Kaiser representatives told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re looking for either a COVID or flu shot ASAP during the strike, you can still find one at a pharmacy near you — but you’ll likely have to pay for it. Usually, if you have health insurance you should be able to give your insurer’s details at a pharmacy vaccination appointment to have the cost of your shot billed to them, but health systems like Kaiser are the exception to this, and so you almost certainly won’t be able to get your new COVID vaccine — or flu shot — at a pharmacy like CVS or Walgreens. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960630/free-new-covid-vaccine-near-me-2023#kaisernewcovidvaccine\">Read more about finding a new COVID vaccine near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11960630","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you need a prescription … \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s statement said that “some of our outpatient pharmacies” would be closed or operating on reduced hours in the event of a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you have a new, urgent prescription need? Kaiser says that you should use your nearest open Kaiser Permanente Pharmacy for these, and that\u003ca href=\"https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/northern-california/front-door\"> a list of open Kaiser pharmacies will be posted on the health system’s website “Tuesday evening.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our physicians and our Pharmacy representatives at each of our sites and in the Pharmacy Call Center will work with patients to ensure they get the medications they need,” said Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also use Kaiser’s mail-order delivery “for most convenient services, which delivers medications in 3 to 5 business days with no shipping fee,” according to the health system’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser’s hospital inpatient pharmacies will remain open, according to the health system, but Kaiser will look at “expanding” their network of pharmacies “to include community pharmacies that can serve our members during a strike and mitigate any closure of our outpatient pharmacies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11963308/kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected","authors":["3243","8659","11840"],"categories":["news_457","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_32707","news_27626","news_28199","news_18543","news_21790","news_421","news_31465","news_19904","news_2759"],"featImg":"news_11963366","label":"news"},"news_11963152":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963152","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963152","score":null,"sort":[1696286937000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots","title":"Looming Kaiser Strike Could Delay COVID, Flu Shots","publishDate":1696286937,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Looming Kaiser Strike Could Delay COVID, Flu Shots | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Nearly 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states, including California, plan to strike beginning Oct. 4 if ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue\">contract negotiations\u003c/a> don’t result in an agreement very soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impending strike, which could be the largest health care strike in U.S. history, would impact nearly 68,000 employees in California — ranging from optometrists to emergency room technicians and housekeeping workers — for at least three days. While Kaiser is prepared to continue most health services, a strike could impact some care needs, including COVID vaccines and flu shots, Kaiser representatives told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be some disruption to care that’s not urgent,” Janet Coffman, professor at the Healthforce Center at UCSF, told KQED. “The bigger issue is how long the strike will be. If it goes beyond three days, then I think we are looking at more disruptions and more difficulties for people to get the COVID-19 vaccine and other care services they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, employees represented by Kaiser’s coalition of labor unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue\">overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike\u003c/a> if a deal was not reached by Sept. 30, when their contract expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Savonnda Blaylock, Kaiser pharmacy technician\"]‘We are suffering. We have had a lot of people leave during and after the pandemic. Unfortunately, those physicians have not been replaced and we don’t know if they will ever be replaced.’[/pullquote]The Coalition began bargaining in April. As of Oct. 2, a new contract had not yet been reached and negotiations are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Wednesday, Kaiser employees plan to picket outside facilities across the Bay Area, including in Antioch, Fremont, Oakland, Richmond, Redwood City, San Francisco, South San Francisco, San José, San Leandro, Santa Clara, Walnut Creek, Vacaville, Manteca, Roseville, Santa Rosa and Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understaffing and wages are two issues Kaiser workers say they are most concerned about as negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savonnda Blaylock, a pharmacy technician at Kaiser in Tracy, helps order flu and COVID vaccines for her facility. But due to staffing shortages, she said patients already face delays in order to receive shots that they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are suffering. We have had a lot of people leave during and after the pandemic. Unfortunately, those physicians have not been replaced and we don’t know if they will ever be replaced,” Blaylock told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients are having very long delays in care where they can’t get the vaccines they need, they can’t come in to see their physicians, because we don’t have physicians for them to be seen. That’s where the lapse in care comes, and where we are not able to accommodate patients,” said Blaylock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor impacting vaccine availability, however, is the fact that Kaiser in California just recently received its supply of doses in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the FDA authorized the updated COVID-19 vaccine, large-scale distribution has been a challenge for vaccine providers nationwide, including Kaiser Permanente,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email. “However, we have now received our supply and expect a consistent supply of the vaccine going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the COVID-19 vaccine is available by walk-in at some Kaiser locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the looming strike, the slow rollout for the COVID-19 vaccine this year has had many people clamoring to secure vaccine appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, other pharmacies are gearing up to take on additional patients who are seeking vaccines if they can’t get them through Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to ensuring no patient pays and everyone who is eligible and wants a vaccine receives one,” a spokesperson for Walgreens told KQED in an email statement. “We encourage everyone to bring insurance information to their appointment if available but will not turn away those whose insurance does not cover it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"kaiser, healthcare, health\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Kaiser is the largest private, nonprofit, health care organization in the U.S., serving more than nine million people in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on similar labor disputes and strikes at Kaiser and other health care giants, Coffman of UCSF said it’s possible that elective surgeries like knee and hip replacements and other non-emergency health care services could be impacted if a strike goes beyond this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call them elective, but often for the people who are getting them, they’ve been in pain for quite some time and further delay just exacerbates that,” Coffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser workers in California — as well as in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — are demanding their employer increase staffing. Workers are pushing for a 7% wage increase in the first two years of a new contract, and a 6.25% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees are also seeking to raise the minimum wage across the board to $26 by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent proposal, Kaiser offered across-the-board wage increases of between 10%–14% over four years, as well as a minimum performance bonus aimed to prevent any employees from receiving no payout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser also recently offered a $23 per hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lead total compensation in every market where we operate, and our proposals in bargaining would ensure we keep that position,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email. “In some places, a Kaiser Permanente employee leaving for a similar job at another organization would face a 20-plus percent pay cut, and lower benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the California Legislature recently passed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">a state bill\u003c/a> that would boost all California health care workers’ minimum wages to $25 per hour. The bill is now awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also recently approved a bill providing unemployment insurance benefits to workers on strike — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963061/newsom-rejects-bill-to-give-unemployment-checks-to-striking-workers\">but Newsom vetoed that bill on Saturday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent Kaiser strike comes a year after nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">2,000 Kaiser mental health care workers in Northern California went on strike last year for 10 weeks\u003c/a> over many of the same staffing and pay issues that workers today are protesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want Kaiser to end the short staffing crisis,” said Blaylock, the Kaiser pharmacy technician. “It can happen at the click of the fingers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Kaiser workers demanding better pay and more robust staffing are preparing to walk off the job starting Wednesday at facilities across the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1696377048,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1089},"headData":{"title":"Looming Kaiser Strike Could Delay COVID, Flu Shots | KQED","description":"Kaiser workers demanding better pay and more robust staffing are preparing to walk off the job starting Wednesday at facilities across the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Looming Kaiser Strike Could Delay COVID, Flu Shots","datePublished":"2023-10-02T22:48:57.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-03T23:50:48.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/235b4b6e-d043-4d1e-9ccd-b090016e14ce/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11963152/looming-kaiser-strike-could-delay-covid-flu-shots","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nearly 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states, including California, plan to strike beginning Oct. 4 if ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue\">contract negotiations\u003c/a> don’t result in an agreement very soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impending strike, which could be the largest health care strike in U.S. history, would impact nearly 68,000 employees in California — ranging from optometrists to emergency room technicians and housekeeping workers — for at least three days. While Kaiser is prepared to continue most health services, a strike could impact some care needs, including COVID vaccines and flu shots, Kaiser representatives told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be some disruption to care that’s not urgent,” Janet Coffman, professor at the Healthforce Center at UCSF, told KQED. “The bigger issue is how long the strike will be. If it goes beyond three days, then I think we are looking at more disruptions and more difficulties for people to get the COVID-19 vaccine and other care services they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, employees represented by Kaiser’s coalition of labor unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961243/california-kaiser-workers-authorize-strike-as-contract-negotiations-continue\">overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike\u003c/a> if a deal was not reached by Sept. 30, when their contract expired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We are suffering. We have had a lot of people leave during and after the pandemic. Unfortunately, those physicians have not been replaced and we don’t know if they will ever be replaced.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Savonnda Blaylock, Kaiser pharmacy technician","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Coalition began bargaining in April. As of Oct. 2, a new contract had not yet been reached and negotiations are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Wednesday, Kaiser employees plan to picket outside facilities across the Bay Area, including in Antioch, Fremont, Oakland, Richmond, Redwood City, San Francisco, South San Francisco, San José, San Leandro, Santa Clara, Walnut Creek, Vacaville, Manteca, Roseville, Santa Rosa and Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understaffing and wages are two issues Kaiser workers say they are most concerned about as negotiations continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savonnda Blaylock, a pharmacy technician at Kaiser in Tracy, helps order flu and COVID vaccines for her facility. But due to staffing shortages, she said patients already face delays in order to receive shots that they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are suffering. We have had a lot of people leave during and after the pandemic. Unfortunately, those physicians have not been replaced and we don’t know if they will ever be replaced,” Blaylock told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patients are having very long delays in care where they can’t get the vaccines they need, they can’t come in to see their physicians, because we don’t have physicians for them to be seen. That’s where the lapse in care comes, and where we are not able to accommodate patients,” said Blaylock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor impacting vaccine availability, however, is the fact that Kaiser in California just recently received its supply of doses in the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the FDA authorized the updated COVID-19 vaccine, large-scale distribution has been a challenge for vaccine providers nationwide, including Kaiser Permanente,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email. “However, we have now received our supply and expect a consistent supply of the vaccine going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the COVID-19 vaccine is available by walk-in at some Kaiser locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the looming strike, the slow rollout for the COVID-19 vaccine this year has had many people clamoring to secure vaccine appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, other pharmacies are gearing up to take on additional patients who are seeking vaccines if they can’t get them through Kaiser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are committed to ensuring no patient pays and everyone who is eligible and wants a vaccine receives one,” a spokesperson for Walgreens told KQED in an email statement. “We encourage everyone to bring insurance information to their appointment if available but will not turn away those whose insurance does not cover it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"kaiser, healthcare, health","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kaiser is the largest private, nonprofit, health care organization in the U.S., serving more than nine million people in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on similar labor disputes and strikes at Kaiser and other health care giants, Coffman of UCSF said it’s possible that elective surgeries like knee and hip replacements and other non-emergency health care services could be impacted if a strike goes beyond this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call them elective, but often for the people who are getting them, they’ve been in pain for quite some time and further delay just exacerbates that,” Coffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser workers in California — as well as in Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. — are demanding their employer increase staffing. Workers are pushing for a 7% wage increase in the first two years of a new contract, and a 6.25% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees are also seeking to raise the minimum wage across the board to $26 by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent proposal, Kaiser offered across-the-board wage increases of between 10%–14% over four years, as well as a minimum performance bonus aimed to prevent any employees from receiving no payout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser also recently offered a $23 per hour minimum wage for its employees in California starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lead total compensation in every market where we operate, and our proposals in bargaining would ensure we keep that position,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email. “In some places, a Kaiser Permanente employee leaving for a similar job at another organization would face a 20-plus percent pay cut, and lower benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the California Legislature recently passed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">a state bill\u003c/a> that would boost all California health care workers’ minimum wages to $25 per hour. The bill is now awaiting Gov. 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It comes amid ongoing worker demands for significant pay raises and more robust staffing, as Kaiser and other large health care providers continue to struggle with severe understaffing and strained caseloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being understaffed and being not appropriately compensated for the amount of work that they put on our plate, we had no choice but to collectively agree to authorize a strike,” said Rashaad Pritchett, who works as housekeeping aide at a Kaiser facility in Richmond, where he cleans and sanitizes operating rooms and other sensitive health space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11957005,news_11947640 label='The Healthcare Staffing Crisis']Born and raised in Richmond, Pritchett says his wages have failed to keep pace with inflation and the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the next four years, we want to make sure that we will have livable wages. At the end of our career we want to make sure that we will be taken care of,” said Pritchett. “We are all fighting for what we believe is right. It’s not a vindictive approach, but it’s like, ‘OK, you have forced our collective bargaining hand.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers argue that staffing levels have sunk dangerously low as many practitioners have left the field because of burnout. Kaiser workers are calling on their employer to increase staffing levels in order to reduce workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers — some of whom are based in Oregon and Washington — are pushing for a 7% wage increase in the first two years of this next contract, and a 6.25% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its proposal, Kaiser offered across-the-board wage increases of between 10–14% over four years, as well as a minimum performance bonus aimed to prevent any employees from receiving no payout. Kaiser also offered a blanket $21 per hour minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But union leaders last week rejected the company’s most recent offer. They said the new minimum would limit performance bonuses for frontline workers, arguing that will only result in increased turnover, further straining the workforce and diminishing the quality of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is also seeking a $25 per hour minimum wage for employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pay bump would align with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB525\">a California bill\u003c/a> currently making its way through the Legislature that would increase all California health care workers’ minimum wage to $25 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also recently approved a bill that would provide unemployment insurance benefits to workers on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nahid Bokaee, a Kaiser pharmacist\"]‘Our patients expect more from a health care system that reported $3 billion in profits in the first half of this year alone, and so do we.’[/pullquote]“Every one of these proposals from Kaiser will make staffing problems worse and continue to delay care to patients,” Dave Regan, president of SEIU-UHW, said in a press release announcing the vote. “Kaiser has failed to bargain in good faith with the caregivers, who are doing everything they can to protect patient safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser insists that it has continued to bargain in good faith. In an email, Kaiser refuted many of the claims the union made about their proposal. The company also pointed to rising costs for drugs, supplies and labor due to inflation, which has been “driving up the cost of health care as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the impasse, representatives for the Oakland-based health care giant said they are “confident” a deal can be reached by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have two more bargaining sessions scheduled for next week. Our priority is to reach an agreement that ensures we can continue to provide market-competitive pay and outstanding benefits,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email to KQED. “We are confident we’ll reach an agreement before the national agreement expires on Sept. 30 that strengthens our position as a best place to work and ensures that the high-quality care our members expect from us remains affordable and easy to access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022-04_Report_Staffing-Survey-10.1_DIGITAL.pdf?emci=11db37e0-b5df-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=%7B%7BContactsEmailID%7D%7D\">union-led survey (PDF)\u003c/a> of about 33,000 Kaiser workers, more than 80% of respondents said they were in understaffed departments, and 65% said they had seen care delayed or denied to patients due to those staffing challenges. Nearly half said they regularly have to skip meals or breaks to keep up with their workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our patients expect more from a health care system that reported $3 billion in profits in the first half of this year alone, and so do we,” Nahid Bokaee, a Kaiser pharmacist in Sterling, Virginia, said in a recent press release about the looming strike vote. “Kaiser can afford to end this dangerous understaffing, but they choose not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company claims it has filled 8,700 of the 10,000 positions it has committed to fill by the end of 2023.[aside postID=news_11960517 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1668439446-1020x683.jpg']The union representing Kaiser employees in California is part of the broader Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents about 88,000 employees in seven states, including Colorado, Oregon and Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.koin.com/news/union-announces-overwhelming-support-for-kaiser-permanente-strike-authorization/\">where local unions have also recently approved going on strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest strike authorization vote comes amid an uptick in labor actions across the country, particularly within the health care industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">2,000 Kaiser mental health care workers in Northern California went on strike last year for 10 weeks\u003c/a> over many of the same staffing and pay issues that workers today are protesting. Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/california/23-health-care-workers-arrested-after-protesting-outside-kaiser-permanente-in-hollywood/\">23 health care workers were arrested\u003c/a> while protesting outside a Kaiser hospital in Hollywood. Nurses in Minnesota \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-nurses-strike-vote-2nd-time-2022-minnesota-nurses-association/\">voted twice\u003c/a> but ultimately avoided a strike in 2022, citing low pay and rapid turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter Farida Jhabvala Romero contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Nearly 60,000 Kaiser health care workers voted in favor of a strike if an agreement isn’t reached by Sept. 30. 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It comes amid ongoing worker demands for significant pay raises and more robust staffing, as Kaiser and other large health care providers continue to struggle with severe understaffing and strained caseloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being understaffed and being not appropriately compensated for the amount of work that they put on our plate, we had no choice but to collectively agree to authorize a strike,” said Rashaad Pritchett, who works as housekeeping aide at a Kaiser facility in Richmond, where he cleans and sanitizes operating rooms and other sensitive health space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11957005,news_11947640","label":"The Healthcare Staffing Crisis "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Born and raised in Richmond, Pritchett says his wages have failed to keep pace with inflation and the rising cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the next four years, we want to make sure that we will have livable wages. At the end of our career we want to make sure that we will be taken care of,” said Pritchett. “We are all fighting for what we believe is right. It’s not a vindictive approach, but it’s like, ‘OK, you have forced our collective bargaining hand.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers argue that staffing levels have sunk dangerously low as many practitioners have left the field because of burnout. Kaiser workers are calling on their employer to increase staffing levels in order to reduce workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers — some of whom are based in Oregon and Washington — are pushing for a 7% wage increase in the first two years of this next contract, and a 6.25% increase the following two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its proposal, Kaiser offered across-the-board wage increases of between 10–14% over four years, as well as a minimum performance bonus aimed to prevent any employees from receiving no payout. Kaiser also offered a blanket $21 per hour minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But union leaders last week rejected the company’s most recent offer. 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In an email, Kaiser refuted many of the claims the union made about their proposal. The company also pointed to rising costs for drugs, supplies and labor due to inflation, which has been “driving up the cost of health care as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the impasse, representatives for the Oakland-based health care giant said they are “confident” a deal can be reached by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have two more bargaining sessions scheduled for next week. Our priority is to reach an agreement that ensures we can continue to provide market-competitive pay and outstanding benefits,” a spokesperson for Kaiser said in an email to KQED. “We are confident we’ll reach an agreement before the national agreement expires on Sept. 30 that strengthens our position as a best place to work and ensures that the high-quality care our members expect from us remains affordable and easy to access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.unioncoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2022-04_Report_Staffing-Survey-10.1_DIGITAL.pdf?emci=11db37e0-b5df-ed11-8e8b-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=%7B%7BContactsEmailID%7D%7D\">union-led survey (PDF)\u003c/a> of about 33,000 Kaiser workers, more than 80% of respondents said they were in understaffed departments, and 65% said they had seen care delayed or denied to patients due to those staffing challenges. 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