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Press release: Kaiser Permanente refuses to offer new proposals during bargaining Thursday as Mental Health Strike in Southern California approaches third month

  • January 17, 2025
In the first negotiating session since October, Kaiser Permanente failed to present any new proposals aimed at reaching an agreement to end the strike by its nearly 2,400 Southern California mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and psychologists that is now in its 13th week.
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Press release: Contract negotiations resume today. Striking workers not expecting much movement from Kaiser in first bargaining session since October

  • January 16, 2025
For the first time since Oct. 25, striking Kaiser Permanente mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and psychologists will return to the bargaining table today. However, the workers, who are in the 13th week of what is now the longest mental health strike in California history, are not optimistic about a breakthrough based on recent...
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 85

  • January 14, 2025
We were back on several picket lines today, but with the LAMC line still shut down due to the wildfires several of us volunteered throughout the Los Angeles metro area to help fire victims.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 82

  • January 11, 2025
With Kaiser having cancelled our bargaining session that had been scheduled for yesterday due to the wildfires, we are scheduled to resume bargaining with Kaiser Thursday, January 16. 
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 78

  • January 7, 2025
It’s been three months and Kaiser is finally meeting us back at the bargaining table. We resume THIS THURSDAY January 9 at 10 a.m. at the Hilton in Glendale
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 75

  • January 4, 2025
We rang in the new year resolved in our fight to improve Kaiser’s broken mental health system. And while Kaiser paraded around the idea that it’s “shifting paradigms in care” at the Rose Parade, we leafletted the attendees of the float viewing event to help them better understand our strike. 
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 71

  • December 31, 2024
We’re holding strong on the picket lines following the holiday, with good attendance and ongoing support from elected officials, community allies, and patients, who have stepped up to share their stories. We’ve heard from more than 500 Kaiser behavioral health patients since late October about their experiences with delayed or denied mental health care.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 64

  • December 24, 2024
A dozen news outlets covered our Zoom press conference this morning featuring four patients who have struggled to get the mental health care they need during the strike.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 61

  • December 21, 2024
We've reiterated to Kaiser that we are ready to bargain anytime. Meanwhile, our strike continues to generate media coverage and political support.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 58

  • December 18, 2024
There has already been some media attention about the joint letters from State Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas — and a majority of state legislators — calling on Kaiser to settle on our terms.
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Press release: Speaker Rivas, Senate President Pro Tempore McGuire and majority of Calif. legislators sign letters urging Kaiser to end strike by settling on the union’s terms

  • December 16, 2024
A majority of California legislators have signed onto letters calling on Kaiser CEO Greg Adams to end a strike by Southern California mental health professionals by agreeing to their proposals for settlement.
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News of the Month – December 2024

  • December 16, 2024
Español Note: Viewing some of these stories may require a subscription. The Kaiser Mental Health Strike, which is now in its ninth week, continues to generate coverage including stories on […]
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