Our hunger strikers are doing well after an exciting second day of their five-day action. The biggest highlight was a visit from Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.
Eight workers began a 5-day hunger strike today outside Kaiser’s Los Angeles Medical Center. were joined throughout the day by fellow Kaiser workers, Kaiser patients, Los Angeles Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, and labor icon Dolores Huerta
Fed up with Kaiser Permanente’s failure to address the needs of patients, mental health professionals will hold a five-day hunger strike beginning April 7.
We kicked off this week by symbolizing the silencing effect Kaiser’s broken mental health system has on our patients and communities. We know the system is fraught with bureaucracy because we see our patients try to self advocate within it, and even with our support, often fail to get the care they need and deserve.
We had a successful action in Bakersfield on Thursday with more than 30 strikers participating, including folks from the Inland Empire, Orange County and Los Angeles.
Workers are protesting the university’s planned integration of the hospital into UCSF Health — a move that would significantly reduce take home pay for workers in the East Bay.
We had another powerful action today with about 125 people at Kaiser’s Pasadena regional headquarters, including patients, elected officials and community allies.
Now in the sixth month of the longest mental health strike in California history, behavioral health workers at Kaiser took to the streets this month throughout Southern California.
As the Kaiser mental health strike enters its sixth month, a state agency has found that Kaiser still has not fixed long-standing deficiencies in its mental health services.
