Kaiser Permanente Workers Demand More Staff, Higher Pay in Historic Strike

“We can’t afford where we live,” a Kaiser employee told The Epoch Times from the picket line. “People are leaving because they cannot afford to stay.”

Kaiser Permanente employees walk a picket line outside the nonprofit health care coalition’s hospital in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 4, 2023. Jill McLaughlin/The Epoch Times

OAKLAND, Calif.—An estimated 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers went on strike over staffing shortages and wages on Oct. 4 in the nation’s largest health care strike.

Nurses, medical technicians, and many others walked picket lines at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente hospitals and medical offices in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Colorado, California, Oregon, and Washington.