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Kaiser Permanente nurses hold signs and use bullhorns during an informational picket outside of the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center on November 10, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
\u201cOver the next two days, 50,000 Kaiser workers will go on strike for the contract of just 700.\n\nSolidarity forever.\u201d— shane ruiz (@shane ruiz) 1637213930
\u201cTens of thousands of workers will strike Kaiser today and tomorrow, in sympathy with the Operating Engineers Local 39, whose 700 Kaiser members have been on strike for two months, and who announced they had not reached a deal late last night.\u201d— Jonah Furman (@Jonah Furman) 1637238517
"It's so important for working people to stand together, and we hope that with the nurses by their side, Kaiser engineers will win meaningful change for working people, and for safe patient care conditions."
"Nurses know the devastating impact that short staffing has on our community's health and well-being," said Cathy Kennedy, president of CNA. "We also know that in order to provide the safe patient care our communities need and deserve, we must be able to count on our coworkers and they must be able to count on us. So we are standing with the Kaiser engineers in their righteous fight for a safe and just workplace."
The company's failure to pay the workers adequately is the latest sign that Kaiser has "lost its way," said one health educator who planned to strike in solidarity.
The company "is putting its drive for profits over people, hurting our patients and union co-workers," Ethan Ruskin, who works at Kaiser San Jose, told The Mercury News. "The Local 39 engineers play a critical role in maintaining our facilities and the equipment we use to take care of patients."
Organizers expressed hope that the sympathy strike would put pressure on executives to offer the engineers adequate pay and staffing.
\u201cMax Bell Alper, executive director of North Bay Jobs with Justice fires up a crowd of #Kaiser workers during a sympathy strike for Engineers local 39 in Santa Rosa, Thursday. @NorthBayNews\u201d— Kent Porter (@Kent Porter) 1637250329
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\u201cOver the next two days, 50,000 Kaiser workers will go on strike for the contract of just 700.\n\nSolidarity forever.\u201d— shane ruiz (@shane ruiz) 1637213930
\u201cTens of thousands of workers will strike Kaiser today and tomorrow, in sympathy with the Operating Engineers Local 39, whose 700 Kaiser members have been on strike for two months, and who announced they had not reached a deal late last night.\u201d— Jonah Furman (@Jonah Furman) 1637238517
"It's so important for working people to stand together, and we hope that with the nurses by their side, Kaiser engineers will win meaningful change for working people, and for safe patient care conditions."
"Nurses know the devastating impact that short staffing has on our community's health and well-being," said Cathy Kennedy, president of CNA. "We also know that in order to provide the safe patient care our communities need and deserve, we must be able to count on our coworkers and they must be able to count on us. So we are standing with the Kaiser engineers in their righteous fight for a safe and just workplace."
The company's failure to pay the workers adequately is the latest sign that Kaiser has "lost its way," said one health educator who planned to strike in solidarity.
The company "is putting its drive for profits over people, hurting our patients and union co-workers," Ethan Ruskin, who works at Kaiser San Jose, told The Mercury News. "The Local 39 engineers play a critical role in maintaining our facilities and the equipment we use to take care of patients."
Organizers expressed hope that the sympathy strike would put pressure on executives to offer the engineers adequate pay and staffing.
\u201cMax Bell Alper, executive director of North Bay Jobs with Justice fires up a crowd of #Kaiser workers during a sympathy strike for Engineers local 39 in Santa Rosa, Thursday. @NorthBayNews\u201d— Kent Porter (@Kent Porter) 1637250329
\u201cOver the next two days, 50,000 Kaiser workers will go on strike for the contract of just 700.\n\nSolidarity forever.\u201d— shane ruiz (@shane ruiz) 1637213930
\u201cTens of thousands of workers will strike Kaiser today and tomorrow, in sympathy with the Operating Engineers Local 39, whose 700 Kaiser members have been on strike for two months, and who announced they had not reached a deal late last night.\u201d— Jonah Furman (@Jonah Furman) 1637238517
"It's so important for working people to stand together, and we hope that with the nurses by their side, Kaiser engineers will win meaningful change for working people, and for safe patient care conditions."
"Nurses know the devastating impact that short staffing has on our community's health and well-being," said Cathy Kennedy, president of CNA. "We also know that in order to provide the safe patient care our communities need and deserve, we must be able to count on our coworkers and they must be able to count on us. So we are standing with the Kaiser engineers in their righteous fight for a safe and just workplace."
The company's failure to pay the workers adequately is the latest sign that Kaiser has "lost its way," said one health educator who planned to strike in solidarity.
The company "is putting its drive for profits over people, hurting our patients and union co-workers," Ethan Ruskin, who works at Kaiser San Jose, told The Mercury News. "The Local 39 engineers play a critical role in maintaining our facilities and the equipment we use to take care of patients."
Organizers expressed hope that the sympathy strike would put pressure on executives to offer the engineers adequate pay and staffing.
\u201cMax Bell Alper, executive director of North Bay Jobs with Justice fires up a crowd of #Kaiser workers during a sympathy strike for Engineers local 39 in Santa Rosa, Thursday. @NorthBayNews\u201d— Kent Porter (@Kent Porter) 1637250329