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Health care employees for Kaiser Permanente are on the verge of striking Monday after the labor contract for 75,000 unionized workers expired.

Healthcare employees for Kaiser Permanente are on the verge of striking on Monday after the labor contract for 75,000 unionized workers expired.

Unless a new deal is reached, it could be the largest ever health care worker strike in the country. The unions want better staffing and raises up to 7%.

Unless a new deal is reached, it could be the largest ever health care worker strike in the country. The unions want better staffing and raises up to 7%.

LOS ANGELES—The way events are rushing onwards in Los Angeles, what’s been the national capital of labor activism for much of 2023 may be the national epicenter of an historic strike wave by the fall of 2023. Or, as SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher told one interviewer, “Here we go again.

Health care workers who were staging a protest outside Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Hollywood were arrested and cited by the Los Angeles Police Department for “civil disobedience” on Labor Day after police declared the protest an unlawful assembly. The workers were participating in a Labor Day march and rally that came to a conclusion outside […]

Health care workers who were staging a protest outside Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Hollywood were arrested and cited by the Los Angeles Police Department for “civil disobedience” on Labor Day after police declared the protest an unlawful assembly. The workers were participating in a Labor Day march and rally that came to a conclusion outside […]

Union members rally at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Labor Day to call for improved working conditions and draw attention to their concerns. P

Workers in Southern California's hotel and healthcare industries say they're facing critical staffing shortages as they struggle to keep pace with high housing costs on low wages.

A union is asking Los Angeles city voters to cap hospital executive pay at the U.S. president’s salary. However, hospitals accuse the union of using the proposal as political leverage, and policy experts question whether the policy, if enacted, would be workable.