SoCal Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Professionals Set to Strike

About 2,400 mental health therapists from San Diego to Bakersfield plan to walk off the job for better pay and retirement benefits.
SoCal Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Professionals Set to Strike
Kaiser Permanente employees walk a picket line outside the nonprofit healthcare coalition’s Oakland, Calif., hospital, on Oct. 4, 2023. Jill McLaughlin/The Epoch Times
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Southern California Kaiser Permanente mental health therapists plan to go on strike Oct. 21 after union negotiations with the large medical provider stalled over better pay and more staffing.

About 2,400 psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, addiction medicine counselors, and marriage and family therapists from San Diego to Bakersfield are expected to walk off their jobs at the company’s 16 hospitals and nearly 200 medical offices.

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