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.
More than 120 people attended our rally and protest in San Diego today, including Kaiser patients, elected officials and allies from other unions. Several news outlets covered the event/
Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health workers from across Southern California will protest and march in Bakersfield Thursday, joined by elected officials and community allies.
Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health workers from across Southern California will protest outside Kaiser’s regional headquarters in Pasadena Wednesday joined by patients, elected officials and community allies.
It’s been over five months since nearly 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health therapists, psychologists, social workers and psychiatric nurses went on strike in Southern California, determined to make Kaiser stop treating mental health care as a second-class service.
