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We’re doing both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals, emergency rooms, pharmacies and nearly all medical offices will remain open during the strike, while patients will be contacted in advance if their care is affected, according to Kaiser. The employer plans to reschedule some surgeries and other procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disruptions could be larger in Southern California, where about 28,000 UNAC/UHCP members are based, making up the vast majority. The union represents just 2,800 members in Northern California, including physician assistants and speech therapists, and 200 in Hawaii.[aside postID=news_12070138 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/StoneWorkerGetty2.jpg']For months, the union has sought a 25% pay increase over a four-year contract, but management has stuck to its offer to raise wages by 21.5%, calling it the strongest compensation package in Kaiser’s national bargaining history. Since the October walkout, the employer said it reached tentative agreements with other Alliance unions, strengthening staffing and scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is disheartening that UNAC/UHCP leaders continue to talk about improving care, when this strike, and their actions over the past several months, are really all about higher wages,” Sims said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, founded in 1945 in Oakland, employs more than 180,000 people in nine states and the District of Columbia. As a nonprofit health plan and care provider, Kaiser said it reinvests its revenue into running and improving its hospitals, clinics and community programs, emphasizing preventive medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company rebounded from a net loss of about $4.5 billion in 2022 to positive net income from operations and investments in later years, posting nearly $13 billion in 2024 and $8 billion for the first three quarters of 2025, according to its most recent financial results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Kaiser agreed to pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/kaiser-permanente-affiliates-pay-556m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations\">$556 million\u003c/a> to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare to increase reimbursements by pressuring doctors in California and Colorado to alter medical records and add diagnoses after patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Mason, UNAC/UHCP’s lead negotiator, said the company floated cutting retirement and health care benefits for newer union members, which would neutralize higher wages. He said management has also refused to bargain on proposals that would allow workers to give patients the care and time they need, though Kaiser disputes that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants to go to an appointment when you’re sick and feel like you’re being rushed because your provider has to get to the next patient and the next,” Mason said. “This strike is to ensure that patient care continues to be the best that it can be and that Kaiser doesn’t continue down this financial-lies path where they’re treating health care like a hedge fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanne Jacobsen attends the strike at Kaiser Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanne Jacobsen, a nurse anesthetist in Oakland, said providers are overbooked and left out of scheduling conversations. She said that the company has struggled to recruit and retain staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s delayed appointments, delayed surgeries… and in places like the clinics where people are getting physical therapy, those physical therapists don’t have adequate time to actually treat the patients well,” Jacobsen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staffing ratios and wages became top concerns for health care workers as the sector has increasingly consolidated and executive pay has soared, according to labor experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 15,000 nurses at three major hospitals in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nursing-strike-new-york-5647ac366a8d067785b9cb4005204878\">New York\u003c/a> went on strike this month, and hundreds more in Grand Blanc, Michigan, remained at the picket line under freezing conditions. Nurses in five other states are threatening walkouts, according to the website \u003ca href=\"https://nurse.org/articles/nurse-strikes-list/\">nurse.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor in Kaiser’s reluctance to commit to additional payroll costs is an uncertain financial forecast under the Trump administration, said John Logan, who chairs the labor and employment studies program at San Francisco State University. Federal policies that are expected to increase the number of uninsured Americans could affect Kaiser’s bottom line.[aside postID=news_12069984 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251014-KAISER-STRIKE-START-MD-06-KQED.jpg']“Kaiser management wants to give itself as much flexibility and wants to avoid making concrete, enforceable commitments to the union in terms of staffing levels and working conditions that it might see are going to be a huge liability in that changing environment,” Logan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union points to Kaiser’s $66 billion in reserves as proof that it can afford improved staffing and benefits, though the company said that the funds are for long-term commitments such as pensions and building maintenance, not ongoing payroll increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, frontline employees want executives to invest more of the nonprofit organization’s financial income on its workforce and patient care, said Rebecca Givan, an associate professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s clearly the case that Kaiser, by any metric, is taking in a lot of money,” Givan said. “It has very highly paid executives and the leaders of Kaiser are making choices about where to invest their money. And these frontline workers feel that a little bit more should be on the frontline and not elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobsen, who’s a member of the union’s bargaining team, said the company’s negotiating behavior felt like “an investment bank that poses as a health care organization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them to say that they can’t afford to pay us fair wages? I think we know where the greed is,” she said on the picket line on Monday. “It’s not out here on the line. It’s way up there in the corporate office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National negotiations that started in May were paused by Kaiser last month, after executives said the union threatened to release damning information about the company. The union then published \u003ca href=\"https://unacuhcp.org/caregivers/\">a report\u003c/a> on Kaiser’s financials, including linking the employer’s investments to Geo Group and CoreCivic, private prison companies that also run many immigration detention centers. Kaiser slammed the findings as a “collection of misrepresentation of facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Kaiser and the union met for negotiations, but workers said they weren’t productive and the strike will continue. The employer said it’s onboarding nurses, clinicians and other staff to work during the walkout, and reassigning some employees to work at strike locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picketers on Monday morning outside Kaiser’s Oakland Medical Center, near the employer’s headquarters, said wages need to keep up with inflation and the cost of living after they accepted smaller pay raises during the pandemic. Many also participated in a larger \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060288/kaiser-strike-ends-sunday-as-union-and-management-plan-to-resume-wage-talks\">five-day strike\u003c/a> in several states in October as part of the Alliance of Healthcare Unions and a one-day walkout in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re fighting for our livelihoods, we’re fighting for patient care,” said Jessica Servin, a nurse anesthetist in San Francisco. She said patients are facing long waitlists for appointments and surgeries and struggling to get necessary care in a timely manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers strike at Kaiser Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believed their values and their mission statement,” said Servin, who joined Kaiser as a nurse almost 20 years ago. “It feels like they’re deviating from the foundation of why Kaiser was built. It feels kind of sad to be here and realize that Kaiser is choosing profit over patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said its health care workers earn more on average than those at other employers and dismissed claims that the quality of its patient care is at risk, pointing to a turnover rate that the organization said is much lower than it is for the rest of the industry. Executives said they aim to balance managing growing payroll costs with keeping care affordable for more than 12 million people Kaiser serves, most of them in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These negotiations come at a time when health care costs are rising, and millions of Americans are at risk of losing access to health coverage,” Lionel Sims, senior vice president of human resources at Kaiser Northern California, said in a statement. “This underscores our responsibility to deliver fair, competitive pay for employees while protecting access and affordability for our members. We’re doing both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals, emergency rooms, pharmacies and nearly all medical offices will remain open during the strike, while patients will be contacted in advance if their care is affected, according to Kaiser. The employer plans to reschedule some surgeries and other procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disruptions could be larger in Southern California, where about 28,000 UNAC/UHCP members are based, making up the vast majority. The union represents just 2,800 members in Northern California, including physician assistants and speech therapists, and 200 in Hawaii.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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As a nonprofit health plan and care provider, Kaiser said it reinvests its revenue into running and improving its hospitals, clinics and community programs, emphasizing preventive medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company rebounded from a net loss of about $4.5 billion in 2022 to positive net income from operations and investments in later years, posting nearly $13 billion in 2024 and $8 billion for the first three quarters of 2025, according to its most recent financial results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Kaiser agreed to pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/kaiser-permanente-affiliates-pay-556m-resolve-false-claims-act-allegations\">$556 million\u003c/a> to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare to increase reimbursements by pressuring doctors in California and Colorado to alter medical records and add diagnoses after patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Mason, UNAC/UHCP’s lead negotiator, said the company floated cutting retirement and health care benefits for newer union members, which would neutralize higher wages. He said management has also refused to bargain on proposals that would allow workers to give patients the care and time they need, though Kaiser disputes that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants to go to an appointment when you’re sick and feel like you’re being rushed because your provider has to get to the next patient and the next,” Mason said. “This strike is to ensure that patient care continues to be the best that it can be and that Kaiser doesn’t continue down this financial-lies path where they’re treating health care like a hedge fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260126-KAISER-STRIKE-BEGINS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanne Jacobsen attends the strike at Kaiser Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanne Jacobsen, a nurse anesthetist in Oakland, said providers are overbooked and left out of scheduling conversations. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/university-of-california\">University of California\u003c/a> workers began a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064154/uc-workers-plan-two-day-strike-as-wage-talks-stall-and-staffing-shortages-deepen\">two-day strike\u003c/a> on Monday as yearslong negotiations with the university system over wages and benefits remain stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 3299 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which represents more than 40,000 custodians, food service workers, patient care assistants and hospital technicians, said wage increases haven’t kept up with the cost of living as employees’ health care costs have skyrocketed, making it nearly impossible to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an affordability crisis that is crushing UC’s most vulnerable workers, workers that UC once called heroes during the pandemic,” said Carmen Lee, a UCSF transportation worker. “I feel completely disrespected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF Health said in a statement that it did not expect significant disruptions to essential operations thanks to contingency plans, although radiology and lab services could still see delays, along with transportation and custodial services across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations between AFSCME and the UC, which began in January 2024, have been deadlocked since April, when the university presented a “best and final” offer that was far from the union’s demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Lee (left), a shuttle operator, and Betty Yee, California State Controller, walk the picket line alongside patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 at the UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay campus on Nov. 17, 2025, striking for living wages, affordable health care, housing benefits and safe staffing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The five-year contract proposal includes a 5% wage increase in 2025; 4% in 2026; and 3% in 2027, 2028 and 2029. AFSCME has asked for increases of 8.5% this year and 7.5% in each of the next two years, citing post-pandemic inflation, rising cost of living and increasing health care premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to bring home six bags of groceries to feed my family. … I had to give that up,” Lee said. “My health care went up $200. With the low wage that they’ve imposed on us so far, I’m not going to be able to afford that health care. I should be able to live and thrive in the city that I grew up in and raised my two sons in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Stenhouse, AFSCME’s statewide spokesperson, said union members are making at least 7% less than they did seven years ago when accounting for the rising cost of living. That’s forcing people to move farther from their workplaces, including as far as El Dorado County, north of Sacramento, or crowd into homes and apartments that aren’t large enough for their families.[aside postID=news_12064154 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61791_GettyImages-1244836327-qut-1020x680.jpg']“In the last three years, a third of [AFSCME members] have voluntarily left their jobs. Why? Because they can’t afford to stay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the university increased its best and final offer to make up for “potentially catastrophic state and federal funding cuts,” UC Associate Vice President for Systemwide Labor and Employee Relations Missy Matella said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC said its offer was $113 million higher than its initial offer in February 2024, and meets the union’s demand to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour. AFSCME had asked that the wage hike be retroactive to 2023. It was implemented in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university also implemented terms from its offer to add monthly health insurance premium credits up to $125 to reduce costs for Kaiser and UC Blue and Gold HMO enrollees. Under its offer, some employees could have access to $0 premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Joanna Marie Fernandez, who’s been an ophthalmic technician at UCSF for 11 years, said the deal doesn’t keep up with rising insurance and housing costs. At the same time, she said, she and her colleagues have had to take on more work because they are understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have double-booked, triple-booked patients in our clinic,” she told KQED. “I came out here [to UC] because of these incredible doctors, this incredible institution, and the thing is, we’re not even able to take care of our own health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064418\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 picket at the UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay campus on Nov. 17, 2025, striking for living wages, affordable health care, housing benefits and safe staffing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This month, two other bargaining groups have come to agreements with the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These outcomes show that UC can and has quickly closed deals when both parties actively participate in solutions-oriented bargaining,” the university said in a statement. “Despite UC’s continued outreach, AFSCME has not presented any substantive counterproposals since April 2025. Absent AFSCME’s engagement, the University cannot engage in meaningful negotiations for this critical workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034098/nearly-60000-uc-workers-hit-picket-lines-in-3rd-statewide-strike-in-recent-months\">UPTE-CWA\u003c/a>, which represents 21,000 research and technical professionals across the UC, announced a tentative deal with the university, prompting them to pull out of Monday’s strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fredrieka Michael (center), a shuttle operator, strikes alongside patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 at the UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay campus on Nov. 17, 2025, for living wages, affordable health care, housing benefits and safe staffing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And over the weekend, California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, which had planned a sympathy strike with AFSCME, also came to a tentative agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC nurses will vote on the tentative agreement this week, and thousands said they still planned to join picket lines off duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stenhouse said it’s telling that AFSCME workers, who are some of the UC’s lowest-paid, are still negotiating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It says a lot that as we’re here today after a week where we saw two contracts settle, the most economically vulnerable workers are the last ones standing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/eromero\">\u003cem>Ezra David Romero\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/university-of-california\">University of California\u003c/a> workers began a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064154/uc-workers-plan-two-day-strike-as-wage-talks-stall-and-staffing-shortages-deepen\">two-day strike\u003c/a> on Monday as yearslong negotiations with the university system over wages and benefits remain stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 3299 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which represents more than 40,000 custodians, food service workers, patient care assistants and hospital technicians, said wage increases haven’t kept up with the cost of living as employees’ health care costs have skyrocketed, making it nearly impossible to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an affordability crisis that is crushing UC’s most vulnerable workers, workers that UC once called heroes during the pandemic,” said Carmen Lee, a UCSF transportation worker. “I feel completely disrespected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF Health said in a statement that it did not expect significant disruptions to essential operations thanks to contingency plans, although radiology and lab services could still see delays, along with transportation and custodial services across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations between AFSCME and the UC, which began in January 2024, have been deadlocked since April, when the university presented a “best and final” offer that was far from the union’s demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-11-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carmen Lee (left), a shuttle operator, and Betty Yee, California State Controller, walk the picket line alongside patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 at the UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay campus on Nov. 17, 2025, striking for living wages, affordable health care, housing benefits and safe staffing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The five-year contract proposal includes a 5% wage increase in 2025; 4% in 2026; and 3% in 2027, 2028 and 2029. AFSCME has asked for increases of 8.5% this year and 7.5% in each of the next two years, citing post-pandemic inflation, rising cost of living and increasing health care premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to bring home six bags of groceries to feed my family. … I had to give that up,” Lee said. “My health care went up $200. With the low wage that they’ve imposed on us so far, I’m not going to be able to afford that health care. I should be able to live and thrive in the city that I grew up in and raised my two sons in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Todd Stenhouse, AFSCME’s statewide spokesperson, said union members are making at least 7% less than they did seven years ago when accounting for the rising cost of living. That’s forcing people to move farther from their workplaces, including as far as El Dorado County, north of Sacramento, or crowd into homes and apartments that aren’t large enough for their families.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In the last three years, a third of [AFSCME members] have voluntarily left their jobs. Why? Because they can’t afford to stay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, the university increased its best and final offer to make up for “potentially catastrophic state and federal funding cuts,” UC Associate Vice President for Systemwide Labor and Employee Relations Missy Matella said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC said its offer was $113 million higher than its initial offer in February 2024, and meets the union’s demand to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour. AFSCME had asked that the wage hike be retroactive to 2023. It was implemented in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university also implemented terms from its offer to add monthly health insurance premium credits up to $125 to reduce costs for Kaiser and UC Blue and Gold HMO enrollees. Under its offer, some employees could have access to $0 premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Joanna Marie Fernandez, who’s been an ophthalmic technician at UCSF for 11 years, said the deal doesn’t keep up with rising insurance and housing costs. At the same time, she said, she and her colleagues have had to take on more work because they are understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have double-booked, triple-booked patients in our clinic,” she told KQED. “I came out here [to UC] because of these incredible doctors, this incredible institution, and the thing is, we’re not even able to take care of our own health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064418\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 picket at the UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay campus on Nov. 17, 2025, striking for living wages, affordable health care, housing benefits and safe staffing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This month, two other bargaining groups have come to agreements with the UC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These outcomes show that UC can and has quickly closed deals when both parties actively participate in solutions-oriented bargaining,” the university said in a statement. “Despite UC’s continued outreach, AFSCME has not presented any substantive counterproposals since April 2025. Absent AFSCME’s engagement, the University cannot engage in meaningful negotiations for this critical workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 8, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034098/nearly-60000-uc-workers-hit-picket-lines-in-3rd-statewide-strike-in-recent-months\">UPTE-CWA\u003c/a>, which represents 21,000 research and technical professionals across the UC, announced a tentative deal with the university, prompting them to pull out of Monday’s strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251117-UCStrike-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fredrieka Michael (center), a shuttle operator, strikes alongside patient care and service workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 at the UCSF Medical Center Mission Bay campus on Nov. 17, 2025, for living wages, affordable health care, housing benefits and safe staffing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And over the weekend, California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, which had planned a sympathy strike with AFSCME, also came to a tentative agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC nurses will vote on the tentative agreement this week, and thousands said they still planned to join picket lines off duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stenhouse said it’s telling that AFSCME workers, who are some of the UC’s lowest-paid, are still negotiating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It says a lot that as we’re here today after a week where we saw two contracts settle, the most economically vulnerable workers are the last ones standing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/eromero\">\u003cem>Ezra David Romero\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Thousands of nurses still planned to join AFSCME picket lines while off duty, and UC nurses will vote on the tentative agreement later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations began in January of 2024 but reached a deadlock in April, with AFSCME and university blaming each other for failing to make meaningful compromises, particularly on wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university recently reached a deal with another union, UPTE-CWA, prompting its roughly 21,000 members to withdraw from the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But UC and AFSCME last met at the bargaining table on April 16 and currently have no sessions scheduled, leaving little hope that the strike can be averted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been hell,” said Kathreen Bedford, a member of the AFSCME 3299’s executive board, describing her time sitting across the bargaining table from university representatives. “We have members pouring their heart out. 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She also questioned the university’s claims of financial strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They literally just bought and acquired two new hospitals here in the Bay Area, six hospitals down in Southern California,” Perlman said. “If you’re broke, you don’t go on a shopping spree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perlman also said uncompetitive wages and persistent short staffing have driven high turnover, with more than 13,000 workers leaving voluntarily over the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bedford said she believes short staffing in her department is partially responsible for a rotator cuff injury that she suffered earlier this year. The injury has put her out of work — and created more work for her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She described the physical strain of hauling weedwackers across the lab’s hilly terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough people to cover all the areas, so we’re doubling back to do another area and another area, repetitive with the same heavy equipment. So it takes a wear and tear on your body,” Bedford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurses who had planned to join the strike in solidarity said the impacts of short staffing and turnover are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maggie Ming, an intensive care unit nurse in the float pool — meaning they are assigned wherever ICUs are short-staffed — said an ongoing hiring freeze means people are quitting faster than the positions can be filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get one respiratory therapist in an ICU to 16 patients, like there’s gonna be such a high amount of burnout and such an amount of moral distress that you can’t take care of everyone, that, of course, people are quitting,” Ming said. “Add on top the fact that the benefits aren’t really that amazing and that the pay isn’t really great. 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The push for a contract comes amid the organization’s looming affiliation with a larger hospice chain based in Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve asked for pretty simple things,” said Jill Tobin, who’s helped dying patients through their final moments for more than four years as a Registered Nurse Case Manager at Hospice East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, we proposed to keep our benefits the same as they are now. We just wanted them protected under a contract,” Tobin said. “[Hospice East Bay] said no, they want the right to make them worse. And so, that’s been really shocking and disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, patient care at the hospice has been “top notch,” Tobin said, but she’s noted a slow erosion since 2023, when nurses, bereavement counselors, pharmacists and others voted to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers. Since then, she said her caseload has jumped from 10 to 15 people, which she called painful for practitioners and patients both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re coming into their home, you’re taking off your shoes, right? Your whole kind of goal is to build rapport and be present with them first and foremost. Like that’s really the medicine of hospice work,” Tobin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050147\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HospiceStrike1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HospiceStrike1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HospiceStrike1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/HospiceStrike1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caregivers went on strike at one of the Bay Area’s oldest hospice facilities, Hospice East Bay in Pleasant Hill, on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. They say they are dealing with severe understaffing. \u003ccite>(Nibras Suliman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The workers’ initial proposal included safe staffing ratios and a 5% wage increase every year for the next three years. But workers said they’ve been met with resistance, and have accused management of several unfair labor practices — including improperly freezing employees’ existing annual raises and laying off a cohort of represented musical therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claire Eustace, a spiritual care counselor, said she’s worried about clients losing access to her specialty’s services, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m afraid that we have this big nonprofit that is taking over … probably starting some time in August. I’m afraid that the priority on spiritual care is gonna go away,” Eustace said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Labor Center Deputy Executive Director Laurel Lucia said nonprofit providers like Hospice East Bay, which serves Alameda, Contra Costa and parts of Solano counties, have a special duty to the community in a field that is increasingly facing corporatization by for-profit owners.[aside postID=news_12048636 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1020x680.jpg']Better conditions for workers, Lucia added, do affect patient experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is research from other health care sectors that’s shown that adequate wages are an important component of retaining health care workers,” Lucia said. “And kind of relatedly, there is research showing the importance of adequate and consistent staffing to patients having good quality of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospice East Bay spokesperson Rico Marcelli said he couldn’t speak to the bargaining process, other than to say that management remains committed to being at the table with workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the decision to lay off the musical therapists, Marcelli said Hospice East Bay decided as part of its effort to contend with serious financial challenges — including a more than $4 million increase in operating losses in 2024 over the prior year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nonprofit hospice care is under threat right now,” Marcelli said, “and part of that is lowered [Medicare] reimbursement rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for hospice, which provides 92% of Hospice East Bay’s hospice revenue, Marcelli said, has not kept pace with increases in labor and other patient care expenses. For the current fiscal year, reimbursement for hospice care in Contra Costa County was cut by 1.4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelli said hospice services will not be affected by the one-day strike and that he’s hopeful the two parties will come to an agreement soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure we’re going to be able to get over these differences because we have to. If we don’t come together, we’re not going to be able to fulfill our mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Nibras Suliman contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Lewis, of Georgia, served in Congress for three decades before his death in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the California Nurses Association headquarters in Oakland, about 200 people — mostly CNA members — gathered to hear speakers condemn the slashing of federal programs like Medicaid, SNAP and Social Security that have been shown to improve the health of marginalized people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cathy Kennedy, president of CNA, said Lewis stands as a model for people to speak up when they see injustice. 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They already started cutting some services, basic needs like maternal health services in rural areas and in some hospitals,” Kennedy said. “It’s going to have a trickle-down effect on everybody. They’re coming after the working people, and it’s benefiting only less than the 1%. It’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As caretakers of the community, Kennedy said it was important that the public see nurses taking a stand alongside them. “We’re very trusted in the communities. 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Steve Shields, Kaiser’s senior vice president of labor relations, said the deal will not affect rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kaiser-health-care-workers-strike-b8b40ce8c082c0b8c4f1c0fb7ec38741\">three-day strike\u003c/a> last week involving tens of thousands of workers in multiple states officially ended last Saturday and workers returned to their jobs in Kaiser’s hospitals and clinics that serve nearly 13 million Americans. Union members said understaffing is boosting the hospital system’s profits but hurting patients, and that executives had been bargaining in bad faith during negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Millions of Americans are safer today because tens of thousands of dedicated healthcare workers fought for and won the critical resources they need and that patients need,” said Caroline Lucas, executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, in a statement Friday. “This historic agreement will set a higher standard for the healthcare industry nationwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tentative agreement also includes protective terms around subcontracting and outsourcing, as well as initiatives to invest in the current workforce and address the staffing crisis. The workers’ last contract was negotiated in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an interest in helping build the health care workforce of the future,” Shields said during a news briefing Friday with both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition of unions \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963708/kaiser-workers-could-reauthorize-strike-if-negotiations-break-down\">had given the company notice\u003c/a> that another strike, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 8, was possible if the latest round of negotiations fell through. It also said the Oct. 31 expiration of a contract covering the Seattle area would enable another 3,000 workers to join picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the parties have achieved here in Oakland demonstrates, once again, that collective bargaining works,” said acting Secretary of Labor Julie A. Su, who helped mediate negotiations this week. “When workers have a voice and a seat at the table, it can result in historic gains for workers, their employer and our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente, based in Oakland, confirmed the deal in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aboutKP/status/1712889965095670195\">social media post\u003c/a> on Friday, noting that the strike notice for November “has been canceled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/seiu_uhw/status/1712787147978321951\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden applauded the tentative deal in a statement Friday, echoing his support for the health care unions. 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We must continue to have theirs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week’s three-day strike at facilities in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington state was a last resort after Kaiser executives ignored the short-staffing crisis worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, union officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Kaiser Permanente' tag='kaiser-permanente']“This deal is life-changing for frontline health care workers like me, and life-saving for our patients,” said Yvonne Esquivel, a pediatric medical assistant at Kaiser Permanente in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their goal was to bring the problems to the public’s consciousness for support, according to the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new [four-year] agreement will offer Coalition-represented employees competitive wages, excellent benefits, generous retirement income plans, and valuable job training opportunities that support their economic well-being, advance our shared mission, and keep Kaiser Permanente a best place to work and receive care,” read a joint-statement from Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikers include licensed vocational nurses, home health aides and ultrasound sonographers, as well as technicians in the radiology, X-ray, surgical, pharmacy and emergency departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No health care worker wants to go on strike,” Caroline Lucas, the coalition’s executive director, said Thursday. “I hope that the last few days have helped escalate this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company warned the work stoppage could cause delays in people getting appointments and scheduling non-urgent procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing Kaiser workers in August asked for a $25 hourly minimum wage, as well as increases of 7% each year in the first two years and 6.25% each year in the two years afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser, which turned a $2.1 billion profit for the quarter, said in a statement last week that it proposed minimum hourly wages between $21 and $23 depending on the location. The company said it also completed hiring 10,000 more people, adding to the 51,000 workers the hospital system has brought on board since 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes a day after Kaiser \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/10/kaiser-permanente-california-behavioral-health-settlement/\">agreed to pay a $50 million fine\u003c/a> as part of a larger settlement with the state of California, which found major deficiencies in its delivery of behavioral health care services. The settlement requires the health care giant to provide its patients with more timely access to behavioral health care, among other improvements, and to invest an additional $150 million in those programs over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Union officials argued that the two hospitals were not adequately reinvesting in staffing, even after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funding. 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All of this is not sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed said she’s particularly encouraged that the new contract includes better mental health support and pay incentives for nurses working with severely ill patients in emergency departments, intensive care units and critical care transport teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that is so important is because it’s been really, really hard for the institution to be able to get nurses in those areas,” she said. “So this incentive program will hopefully retain the nurses who have been here through the pandemic. And it will also incentivize experienced nurses who want to come to Stanford to work in those areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure mounted against hospital management heading into the strike, with nurses receiving strong support from elected officials across the Peninsula and South Bay. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenAlexPadilla/status/1520202366049562626\">U.S. Sen. 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The strike is CRONA’s first in more than two decades, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A strike has always been the last resort for CRONA nurses, but we are prepared to stand strong and make sacrifices today for the transformative changes that the nursing profession and our patients need,” said CRONA President Colleen Borges on Monday. 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It’s not good for our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reed said she’ll be at the bargaining table to fight for better retirement benefits and to make sure that patients get the best care — and part of that, she said, is making sure nurses also get the mental health care they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of [workers] are paying for mental health services out of their pockets,” she said. “And I think with the death of Michael Odell … that actually did something to a lot of people.” Odell was a 27-year-old traveling nurse who was working at Stanford Health Care in January when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/23/nurse-warned-of-pandemic-mental-toll-health-workers/\">died by an apparent suicide\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had been bringing these [mental health] issues to light even before the tragic death of one of our colleagues,” Fred Taleghani, a nurse at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and a member of the union’s negotiation team, told KQED before the strike began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospitals’ existing employee assistance program, Taleghani said, “was taking upwards [of] four to six weeks to even get an appointment with a therapist. And [for] anyone experiencing a mental health crisis, you need help immediately. A month from now, a month and a half from now — it doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taleghani said the union is asking for creative workarounds to get the hospitals to improve mental health care options for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for $1,750 that [a] nurse can reimburse up to 80% of their outside mental health expenses with,” he said. “Mental health is a really personal issue, and you have to have a therapist that you connect with — and a randomly assigned therapist from a large company … is just not workable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hospitals plan to cut striking workers’ benefits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford Health and Packard Children’s announced earlier this month that they would cut striking workers’ health care benefits as of May 1. Stanford executives Beatty and Cepero said doing so is “standard national practice,” as health care benefits from an employer are generally only provided to those who are actively working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This standard practice is not unique to our hospitals and applies to any of our employees who are not working, are on unpaid status, and are not on an approved leave,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators representing parts of the peninsula have called on Stanford to resolve the contract dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint letter Friday to Stanford Health Care President and CEO David Entwistle and Packard Children’s President and CEO Paul King, Assemblymembers Ash Kalra (D-San José) and Marc Berman (D-Palo Alto) and state Sen. 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And if that's happening, then the nursing staff and the other health professionals may feel like they want more protection because the people around them may be less protected. I think that is going to be an ongoing concern, especially about the quality of the equipment and its availability and trying to move into a more sustainable pattern of of use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"tr-paragraph\" data-pm-slice='2 2 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null]'>Depending on the situation, the strikes coming up are generally registered nurses and generally in hospitals. But there are other settings like nursing homes that have been hit really hard, and there was a long period of time where family members were really not allowed to go into nursing homes. What people haven't really talked about for nurses and nursing assistants in those settings is how much extra workload that put on those staff. Often, family members go in and help take a meal with a loved one and help feed them and help provide other services or other support to their family member, which relieve some of the workload and the burden for the paid staff in a nursing home setting. When the family members were kicked out, the nursing staff had all that extra work that they needed to do, and there was no emotional support for the family members beyond the staff, so it's incredibly burdensome. So I think that's another area where we don't see any strikes coming up in the next week or two, but I think we really need to keep a close eye on what's going to happen in nursing homes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p4-0\"}]'>\u003cstrong>Let's talk about the responses from hospital administrators. Stanford Health Care has doubled down on their plan to cut off health insurance coverage for the nurses if they go through with the strike next week. 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And I think for a lot of health care workers, they may have concerns about relaxing some of the restrictions that may bring family members in who aren't required to have equipment. And if that's happening, then the nursing staff and the other health professionals may feel like they want more protection because the people around them may be less protected. I think that is going to be an ongoing concern, especially about the quality of the equipment and its availability and trying to move into a more sustainable pattern of of use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"tr-paragraph\" data-pm-slice='2 2 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null]'>Depending on the situation, the strikes coming up are generally registered nurses and generally in hospitals. But there are other settings like nursing homes that have been hit really hard, and there was a long period of time where family members were really not allowed to go into nursing homes. What people haven't really talked about for nurses and nursing assistants in those settings is how much extra workload that put on those staff. Often, family members go in and help take a meal with a loved one and help feed them and help provide other services or other support to their family member, which relieve some of the workload and the burden for the paid staff in a nursing home setting. When the family members were kicked out, the nursing staff had all that extra work that they needed to do, and there was no emotional support for the family members beyond the staff, so it's incredibly burdensome. So I think that's another area where we don't see any strikes coming up in the next week or two, but I think we really need to keep a close eye on what's going to happen in nursing homes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p4-0\"}]'>\u003cstrong>Let's talk about the responses from hospital administrators. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of nurses walked off their jobs Wednesday at three hospitals in Alameda County as part of a five-day strike to call attention to stalled contract negotiations and their concerns about workplace and patient safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Personal protective equipment] is probably the biggest thing that we want. And safe staffing levels. We definitely don’t want to be laid off,” said Adrian Jackson, a respiratory care nurse at Highland Hospital in Oakland. “We just want to keep what we do have and make sure that we’re safely staffed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wages are at stake, too, said Pete Castelli, public sector director for the California Nurses Association (CNA), which represents some of the nurses on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at an impasse because management refuses to offer any substantive gains for nurses or even a market price so they can retain nurses and keep them working here,” Castelli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11841461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45249_011_KQED_Alameda_AlamedaHospitalStrike_10072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alameda Health System employees and supporters march outside of Alameda Hospital on Oct. 7, 2020, during a planned five-day strike over COVID-19 safety concerns and stalled contract negotiations.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45249_011_KQED_Alameda_AlamedaHospitalStrike_10072020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45249_011_KQED_Alameda_AlamedaHospitalStrike_10072020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45249_011_KQED_Alameda_AlamedaHospitalStrike_10072020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45249_011_KQED_Alameda_AlamedaHospitalStrike_10072020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45249_011_KQED_Alameda_AlamedaHospitalStrike_10072020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda Health System employees and supporters march outside of Alameda Hospital on Oct. 7, 2020, during a planned five-day strike over COVID-19 safety concerns and stalled contract negotiations. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 150 nurses at San Leandro Hospital and 175 at Alameda Hospital are represented by the CNA, while about 900 nurses at Highland Hospital are represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021, according to union representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to nurses, other SEIU members at Highland Hospital who work as technicians, clerks, housekeepers and social workers are joining the strike, bringing the total number of striking employees there to about 3,200, according to John Pearson, an SEIU chapter president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unions said they worked together to coordinate strikes at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"nurses-strike\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization that manages all three hospitals, Alameda Health System (AHS), said it has brought in hundreds of replacement workers but has had to adjust service levels by canceling elective procedures and rescheduling appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We apologize to our patients and community health partners for any inconvenience they may experience due to postponement or reduction of some services during the strike,” wrote Terry Lightfoot, director of public affairs and community engagement for AHS, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are disappointed that the unions called this strike at a time when there are already extraordinary strains on health care providers, we encourage them to return to the bargaining table, where we can resolve our differences and reach agreement on a fair, mutually beneficial contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a memo to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the hospital system’s CEO, Delvecchio Finley, shared details of the management’s offers, which include a 2.5% raise in wages every year for the next three years and an additional 12 weeks of paid leave for anyone needing to care for a family member because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I implore the unions to please call off these strikes and let’s get back to trying to work together,” Finley wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11841465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11841465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS45244_006_KQED_Alameda_AlamedaHospitalStrike_10072020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alameda Health System employees and supporters march outside of Alameda Hospital on Oct. 7, 2020. 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