Tens of thousands of Kaisenter’s health workers in California and Hawaii traveled from work at the beginning of the day as they implemented the main medical provider for non-profit to increase the wages and shortage of employees.
It comes to Subscribers for 31,000, Nurses, pharmacists, midwives, talk specialists, talks, contacts, some experts, some professionals.
“We are clear, our workers are trying to continue to get the cost of inflation,” said Charmaine Morales, the President of the United Norses Assoms. California / Union of Health Care Offerents, known as Unac / HCP.
Morales said the Request for a union’s wage application was required to compensate for the highest minor workers found in their 2021 contract discussions, when they received 2% increase in the first year. He said that the company could not be neglected to meet various staff teams in the interview sites last week to discuss domestic solutions.
“We need to employ lasting employees. We want long-term solutions,” said Morales.
The union has raised in the internal register of nurses in unemployment who are union, so that the company is to rely on the nurses traveling for agreements. Morales said the proposal “did not go anywhere.”
As stricken workers were moved to southern California, Kaiser Walltente called a “unnecessary and distracting strike” and said the paid workshops again emphasized that employees were in the center of union needs.
Kaiser’s spokesman Candice Lee said in the e-mail that while “public messages emphasize workers and other troubles and other ways, is the reason for the strike.” Lee said Kaiser’s Deandring Cartiti’s quoto gathered or exceeded all California rate-to to patients, and that the company “work on its hiring and to ensure care of our patients.”
The company has called for the workers request to increase 25% of the “without the action of today’s economic materials and health care costs.” Kaiser’s provision of 21.5% of the payment of the fee will increase approximately $ 2 billion in 2029, the company said.
“Supporting this increase, reducing internal costs and operating activities.
The company said that he had plans to fill in the gaps of care during the strike, and employed 7,600 temporary nurses, doctors and other workers such as security. Many of those people work at Kaiser Generent in front and are familiar with its locations, Kaiser said. The company also noted that its 1,000 employees were veloped and alleged to work in striking sites.
Union union agreements with Kaiser Generent-out of September 30
The first day of strike – planned to run on Sunday – the beginning of the strong storm that rode Los Angeles early on Tuesday.
Togo Sweeney’s rust came up with hundreds of some from a nearby park to Kaiser South Bay Meach through a rainfall. The crowd of historical health workers carry signs, and their green ponchos are beaten.
Sweeney, 54, who was working at Kaiser Generent 20 years, had been in a row of curtains for hours. “I’m very wet, but it is right. We encourage the right things,” said Sweeney.
Harbor City center was among 20 sites collected in the whole country, most of them focused on South California. Actions are scheduled to Hawaii and Oregon later.
Seeney said he struggled to treat five patients, especially when other staff, such as health professionals and financial assistants and assistants, were arrested. If two patients, for example, they are healthy when they rise, both require a living on their bed, even a third or four patient may need help at the toilet.
“Is it not easy to walk away from our patients, but if we don’t put it, who?” Said Sweeney. “We are careful people. It is difficult but we should do it.”
Romy Timm, physical medical doctor, joined a picket line with other unions on strike.
Timm said drug-driven problems are often made to the body and, and at least ten working parties in recent years reduce their work hours to deal with 16 to 20 new patients a week.
“We often work on paper through our lunch,” says Timm.
Timm, who had worked for a company ergonomist, which would use nursing workers and pharmacist applicants.
High income requirements come between health care costs. Standard premiums for the former employer who has a employer given to the employer in California’s private sector almost doubled in 15 years. The costs arose from $ 1,000 in 2008 to $ 2,000 in 2023, according to the Federal Data Analysis by KFFeral Matters, which can be linked to Kaiser. That extension is so much greater than average.
Some major medical centers addresses other financial conclusions, uncertainty of organization due to media’s cut. Centers including sharp health care, UC San Diego Health and UCSF Health have announced programs to reduce community health services and to make hundreds of Lanoffs.
