Kaiser Nurses and Health Care Workers Strike in California and Hawaii

Health care workers say they want a fair contract, including safe staffing levels, timely access to quality care, and fair wages for frontline caregivers.

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

Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers began a strike on Jan. 26 across California and Hawaii, while bargaining is ongoing.

The strike involves 31,000 nurses and health care professionals, according to the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), a part of the Alliance of Health Care Unions.