![]() ![]() Management denies that’s true, although it does acknowledge it is facing a staffing problem. “While these plans to strike are disappointing, we remain committed to reaching an agreement that is good for our employees, our members, and our organization, and we will continue to bargain in good faith,” Kaiser said in a statement.īlaylock, who is on her union’s negotiating team, says Kaiser is disregarding the demands to fix the staffing crisis. ![]() Kaiser said it has contingency plans in place to continue to provide care to patients during a strike. Members of the coalition of unions - including nurses, therapists, technicians, dietary services, maintenance and janitorial staff - are set to walk out for a three-day strike starting on Wednesday. If the coalition of unions does go on strike it would affect dozens of facilities in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia and Washington, DC. We’ve lost so many workers over the past three years.” On my shift now, there are probably about 12 of us. Now I think about leaving, though I don’t want to. “When I came to Kaiser, this was the best place to work. “When we try to schedule appointments (for my mother), we’re told they don’t have the staff to accommodate her,” said Blaylock. But Blaylock said she feels she has no choice given the staffing problems she now sees at the hospital, both as an employee and as a patient. That could change on Wednesday when she becomes one of 75,000 workers who participate in the nation’s largest health care strike in history.īlaylock said it will be tough to walk off the job and away from her regular patients, even though the strike is set to last only three days. ![]() Savonnda Blaylock, a pharmacy technician in northern California, has worked for health care giant Kaiser Permanente for 22 years and she’s never been on strike. ![]()
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