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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 96

We welcomed some wonderful guests on our picket lines this week. On Wednesday in Lancaster, a 7- year-old girl handed workers artificial roses, and each rose had a heart-shaped tag ...

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 93

We began the 4th month of our strike in fine form today. ABC7 came out early to the Woodland Hills picket to interview people on the picket line. In Downey, ...

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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

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 ...

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Press release: Contract negotiations resume today. Striking workers not expecting much movement from Kaiser in first bargaining session since October

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 ...

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 85

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 ...

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 82

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

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

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” ...

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 71

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 ...

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 64

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

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

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 ...

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