Health care workers for Kaiser Permanente are entering their eighth day on strike and planning to picket Monday at medical centers in San Diego, Los Angeles, Anaheim and Fontana.
Negotiations between the union leaders representing the Kaiser workers and the company broke off Friday. No bargaining sessions are planned as the strike enters its second week.
“We remain ready to resume negotiations when Kaiser gets serious about reaching an agreement,” Jim Clifford, a licensed clinical counselor for Kaiser in San Diego, said. “Everything we’ve proposed, Kaiser already provides to nearly all of its employees in California. Kaiser can’t meet its obligation to transform its mental healthcare system unless it starts treating its mental health professionals as equal to the rest of its workforce.”…