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Keck-USC workers win raises in tough contract fight

  • January 28, 2025
Salaries for workers at Keck Hospital of USC and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center will increase by an average of 24 percent under the new agreement, which has no takeaways.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 99

  • January 28, 2025
We had several guests on our picket lines today, headlined by California State Treasurer Fiona Ma addressing workers at LAMC. She talked from the heart about her family’s mental health needs, and noted the increased need for mental health therapy in the aftermath of the wildfires.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 96

  • January 25, 2025
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 that read “You will win.” 
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 93

  • January 22, 2025
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, a local store owner brought enough wings and garlic noodles for all 70 people on the line to eat. We also had great energy in San...
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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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