A five-day strike by 30,000 Kaiser healthcare workers in California and Hawaii ended Sunday. Negotiations resume Wednesday.

The union seeks a 25% wage increase over four years and mandatory staffing standards, while Kaiser disputes staffing is the primary issue.

A five-day strike that affected hundreds of Kaiser Permanente clinics and hospitals in California and Hawaii came to an end after the union representing workers said it had “new momentum” to head back to the bargaining table, but no apparent agreement has been reached.

“This strike may be over — but the fight for patient safety is not,” the United Nurses Assns. of California/Union of Healthcare Professionals, known as UNAC/UHCP said in a statement. “Caregivers are returning to work united, energized, and ready to keep up the pre

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