About 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente locations across the U.S. are ready to strike on Wednesday over staffing shortages and other concerns.
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The employees alleged Kaiser's bargaining in bad faith led to unsafe levels of staffing that resulted in long wait times, patient neglect and missed diagnoses. Additionally, the Coalition said it's advocating for better medical plans for retirees as well as protections against work that is outsourced and subcontracted.
in profit over the last five years and $3 billion in profits in just the first six months of this year. "We need to keep working together to get through this. Because the reality is that we are still in a health care crisis in this country," the nonprofit said in a statement. "Access to care is stretched thin and it will take time to recover as an industry and stabilize the US health care system. We can only do that if we work together, management and labor, side-by-side, for one another, our patients, and our communities.
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