A three-day strike is slated to begin Wednesday. The company serves about 835,000 members in the District, Maryland and Virginia.
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers plan to walk off the job starting Wednesday morning in what would be the largest health-care strike in U.S. history, seizing on momentum in the labor movement across multiple industries.
A smaller number — about 400 pharmacists and optometrists — in Virginia and D.C. plan to stop work for one day. The strike at Kaiser arrives during a year of heightened labor activity in the United States. More than 375,000 workers have walked off the job this year so far, making itsince 2000, according to Bloomberg Law’s database of work stoppages. In Hollywood, 160,000 actors have been on strike since July, demanding higher wages and guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence.
the rising cost of living. Some of her colleagues have started working second jobs to make ends meet; others can only afford to live hours away near the Kansas border. With her husband out of work, Coleman, who makes around $28 an hour, is in the process of applying for a second job at Pizza Hut to keep her household afloat.
The one-stop-shop care model is what attracted Curling, the Virginia optometrist, to Kaiser 15 years ago, but she said vacancies mean she waits longer to see patients, rarely takes a lunch break and routinely works late.“It falls on the providers,” Curling said in a phone interview Monday night. “We want to provide the best quality and we do, but it falls on us to put in that extra time.”
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