Healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in Oregon and Southwest Washington are set to strike for five days beginning next Tuesday if they are unable to reach a contract agreement with the care consortium.

The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP), which represents around 4,000 Kaiser employees, announced last month that 97 percent of its voting members authorized the union to call a strike in advance of the expiration of their labor contract at the end of September.

The OFNHP-represented Kaiser workers are just a small number of the nearly 48,000 healthcare workers across multiple states who belong to unions that are part of the Alliance of Health Care Unions and have authorized strikes beginning on October 14.

This is the second consecutive contract negotiation i

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