With contract bargaining set to begin for NUHW-represented mental health professionals in Southern California, The California Labor Federation passed a resolution calling on Kaiser to bargain a fair contract.
After NUHW members in Oakland and Richmond struck two years ago to make Kaiser Permanente recognize MLK Day as a paid holiday, they have begun organizing to do the same for Juneteenth.
With the university proposing wage freezes and healthcare cuts that would worsen an understaffing crisis, NUHW members picketed hospitals across the Keck-USC system.