Video above: KTLA's coverage of the Kaiser Permanente strike from Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.

The five-day strike involving tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers has ended, and the union representing the workers says there is now “new momentum” in negotiations.

The strike began this past Tuesday at more than 500 Kaiser facilities across the West Coast, with employees taking to picket lines in protest of what United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) officials alleged were “unsafe staffing, stagnant wages and deteriorating patient care conditions.”

Of the 46,000 striking union members, more than 31,000 were based in California – the other striking workers were mainly concentrated in Hawaii and Oregon. They included registered

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