October 6, 2023 -
BNN Bloomberg
Kaiser’s Largest US Health-Care Strike Is Latest Blow to Struggling Hospitals
“The issues that Kaiser workers are striking over – understaffing and insufficient wages – are widespread for health care workers,” said Laurel Lucia, director of the health care program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. “Given the increasing problems health-care workers have faced since the pandemic and the surge in strikes across industries, I would not be surprised to see more hospital strikes in the coming months.”