{"id":54071,"date":"2025-10-03T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/54071\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:28:07","slug":"usw-local-7600-issues-10-day-notice-of-intent-to-strike-kaiser-permanente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/54071\/","title":{"rendered":"USW Local 7600 Issues 10-Day Notice of Intent to Strike Kaiser Permanente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fri., Oct. 3, 2025<br \/>Contact: Chelsey Engel, <a href=\"https:\/\/usw.org\/press-release\/usw-local-7600-issues-10-day-notice-of-intent-to-strike-kaiser-permanente\/mailto:cengel@usw.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cengel@usw.org<\/a>, 412-212-8173<\/p>\n<p>(Fontana, Calif.) \u2013 More than 8,600 Kaiser Permanente health care workers represented by USW Local 7600 have officially issued a 10-day notice of intent to strike, a step required by federal law before health care workers can walk off the job. If a deal is not reached, the five-day strike will begin on Tues., Oct. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Local 7600 members \u2013 including Licensed Vocational Nurses, Medical Assistants, engineers, pharmacy staff and lab staff, clerical, dietary and environmental services workers, technical staff, and other frontline professionals \u2013 have been bargaining since April over patient safety protections, staffing levels and ratios, and fair wages. National bargaining, led by the Alliance of Health Care Unions (AHCU), began in May and covers more than 52,000 Kaiser Permanente employees nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been clear from the start: our fight is about protecting patients and valuing the workers who care for them,\u201d said Local 7600 President Micheal Barnett. \u201cIssuing this notice means we are serious. If Kaiser continues to ignore our concerns, our members are ready to strike to defend safe staffing and quality care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contracts covering Kaiser workers in California and across the country expired September 30 and October 1. Despite months of negotiations, key issues remain unresolved. By filing the 10-day notice, USW Local 7600 joins other Alliance unions across the country in preparing for a potential strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKaiser calls us heroes, but refuses to bargain a fair contract that ensures safe staffing and respects the critical work we do every day,\u201d Barnett added. \u201cWe want to avoid a strike, but we will not accept a deal that undermines our patients or our profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USW represents 850,000 workers employed in health care, metals, mining, pulp and paper, rubber, chemicals, glass, auto supply and the energy-producing industries, along with a growing number of workers in public sector, higher education, tech and service occupations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fri., Oct. 3, 2025Contact: Chelsey Engel, cengel@usw.org, 412-212-8173 (Fontana, Calif.) \u2013 More than 8,600 Kaiser&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-54071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}