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Press release: Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: After unproductive bargaining session, Kaiser mental health professionals return to picket lines

  • October 25, 2024
After an unproductive bargaining session Wednesday, Kaiser Permanente’s nearly 2,400 mental health professionals will return to picket lines today, including the first picket line in Bakersfield since the strike began on Monday.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 4

  • October 24, 2024
We had another day of strong turnout and high energy as we moved our picket lines to Riverside, Woodland Hills, Irvine, and Baldwin Park. 
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Press release: Kaiser mental health strike: Negotiations resume today as leading social worker professional organization backs strikers

  • October 24, 2024
Negotiations resume today as the leading voice for social workers in California backs striking mental health professionals and calls on Kaiser Permanente to address their “critical issues."
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 3

  • October 24, 2024
We had another day of strong turnout and high energy as we moved our picket lines to Riverside, Woodland Hills, Irvine, and Baldwin Park. 
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 2

  • October 23, 2024
We had another day of strong turnout and high energy as we moved our picket lines to Riverside, Woodland Hills, Irvine, and Baldwin Park. 
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 1

  • October 22, 2024
We had great turnout and lots of energy on our picket lines for Day 1 of our open-ended strike. More than 500 NUHW members walked the picket line at Los Angeles Medical Center and many more picketed at Fontana, Anaheim, and San Diego.
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Press release: Nearly 2,400 mental health professionals at Kaiser Permanente will begin striking at 6 a.m. today throughout Southern California

  • October 21, 2024
The open-ended strike is a last resort for caregivers who have fought for years to make Kaiser fix a mental health system so broken that it was fined $50 million in 2023
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Kaiser Mental Health Strike Information

  • October 21, 2024
Read the press release, see the picket line schedule, and access campaign resources.
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Kaiser mental health strike: picket line locations

  • October 20, 2024
See all the locations for the Southern California Kaiser Permanente mental health workers' strike.
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Member Resources: Kaiser Psych-Social Strike

  • October 19, 2024
Get all the information you need about our strike: picket line schedule, FAQs, hardship funds, and more.
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Kaiser Permanente’s mental health professionals to begin open-ended strike 6 a.m. , Monday, October 21

  • October 18, 2024
Nearly 2,400 mental health professionals will form picket lines outside Kaiser facilities throughout Southern California demanding that the nation’s largest non-profit HMO fix a mental health system that’s so broken, the state of California fined it $50 million last year.
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With Kaiser Mental Health Strike approaching, workers call on state authorities to enforce laws requiring Kaiser to provide care

  • October 17, 2024
The strike announcement comes exactly one year after California’s top health regulator fined Kaiser a record $50 million for numerous mental health deficiencies including understaffing its mental health services.
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