Kaiser Permanente, 75,000 Health Care Worker Strike

• The largest health care strike in US history.
• Striking workers from California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon, are represented by a coalition of unions that comprise 40% of Kaiser Permanente’s staff.
• Kaiser Permanente offered wage increases of 5% in the first three years of the new contract, and 4% in the final year to all unionized employees. The coalition has not accepted the offer, asking for a 6.5% increase in the first two years of the contract, and a 5.75% increase in the final two years.
• Keiser Permanente employs 65,005 nurses and 23,656 physicians as of 2022