LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 40,000 healthcare workers at University of California (UC), a top public university system in the United States, kicked off a two-day strike on Wednesday morning. "Frontline Service and Patient Care UC workers are on strike Nov. 20 and Nov. 21,...
Nearly 2,400 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities went on strike Monday amid contract talks and allegations of a "broken" system of care, while Kaiser officials say the union has been "slow walking" the negotiation process and planned to strike before labor...
Kaiser Permanente workers in California and Oregon on Monday voted to authorize a strike, clearing the way for potentially thousands of health care staffers to stop working over demands for safer working conditions and better pay. The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Healthcare Professionals...
Thousands of mental health clinicians with Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente are planning to strike, according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). California The statewide, weeklong strike, which involves 2600 psychologists, therapists, and social workers represented by the ...
The union colation representing more than 85,000 frontline workers is negotiating a new contract with the company. The current deal is set to expire on Sept. 30, after which a strike is possible. Workers say there has been a health care staffing crisis at Kaiser for years, exacerbated by ...
the health maintenance organization demonstrate good faith and fix its broken mental health system that leaves patients waiting up to three months for therapy appointments and therapists overwhelmed with crushing caseloads, according to a news release from the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW)...
Hundreds of nurses who work at Saint Louise Regional Hospital are on strike, joining the picket line with their colleagues represented by the Registered Nurses Professional Association. The healthcare workers are protesting alleged unfair labor practices exhibited by their employer, Santa Clara County. ...
state’shealthcareandfast-food workers. Workers are nowguaranteed at least five paid sick days, up from three. Newsom vetoed bills that would have allowed workers on strike to receive unemployment benefits and included housekeepers, nannies and other h...
Health Care Workers Strike in Castro Valley of California While TV cameras broadcast round-the-clock images of healthcare workers getting the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, other healthcare workers went on strike over unsafe working conditions. ...
Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania are seeing surges in claims for unemployment benefits as workers and state health officials in those states struggle to strike a balance between economic wellbeing and safety from the coronavirus. Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Geor...