Unionized workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and Hawaii are set to end their four-week strike that disrupted care at hospitals and clinics in the Bay Area, citing improvement at the bargaining table after months of stalled negotiations.
Spokespersons for the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals union said in a news release Monday that it had notified Kaiser of plans to formally end their work stoppage Tuesday morning. Workers had not taken to picket lines on Monday, as they had for much of the last month.
The striking workers are seeking a 25% wage increase over four years; Kaiser has offered 21.5%. Kaiser’s proposed raise would cost nearly $2 billion over the life of the contract, and the union’s would cost another $1 billion.
The union said its negotiations have driven “significant movement at the bargaining table” with Kaiser.
“Returning members to their patients and their livelihoods is the clearest path to securing a final agreement and building on the progress achieved during the strike,” the union said.
Spokespersons for Kaiser in the Bay Area did not immediately confirm the strike’s end.
More than 31,000 nurses and other health professionals walked off the job and onto picket lines on Jan. 26. In Northern California, about 2,800 Kaiser nurse anesthetists, occupational, speech and physical therapists were among them. The union launched the strike after negotiations stalled in the fall, and relations between its negotiators and Kaiser’s had deteriorated by the holidays.
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