Roughly 19,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente workers joined tens of thousands of their colleagues around the country on the picket lines Wednesday in what their union is calling the nation\u0027s largest ever health care worker strike.
SAN FRANCISCO – Roughly 19,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente workers joined tens of thousands of their colleagues around the country on the picket lines Wednesday in what their union is calling the nation's largest ever health care worker strike.Starting at 6 a.m., 75,000 members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West and aligned unions walked off the job in five states and Washington, D.C., after negotiators failed to reach a last-minute contract agreement.
Department of LaborIn addition to the SEIU-UHW workers, two other local unions representing roughly 14,000 members—Engineers and Scientists of California Local 20 and Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 29 -- have authorized a sympathy strike.
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