{"id":299708,"date":"2026-02-24T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299708\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:11:09","slug":"kaiser-permanente-nurses-health-care-professionals-in-california-and-hawaii-end-strike-will-return-to-work-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299708\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Permanente nurses, health care professionals in California and Hawaii end strike, will return to work Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A strike lasting nearly a month<\/a> in California and Hawaii will conclude on Tuesday morning after a union for nurses and health care workers struck a deal with Kaiser Permanente, as “significant movement at the bargaining table” was made on Monday.<\/p>\n

A news release<\/a>\u00a0from the United Nurses Associations of California\/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC\/UHCP) said the more than 31,000 striking Kaiser nurses and other professionals will return to work on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Over the past 48 hours, significant movement at the bargaining table prompted union leaders to send the employer a notice of unconditional return to work,” the news release says.<\/p>\n

While negotiations will continue, no picket lines took place on Monday as return-to-work agreements were finalized.<\/p>\n

“Returning members to their patients and their livelihoods is the clearest path to securing a final agreement and building on the progress achieved during the strike,” the union said.<\/p>\n

The strike affected Kaiser facilities in California and Hawaii starting Jan. 26. The union pushed for higher wages and increased staffing.<\/p>\n

Kaiser Permanente called the strike “entirely unnecessary,” criticizing the union’s demand to increase wages by up to 64% over four years, “at a time when health care costs are rising, and millions of\u202fAmericans are at risk of losing access to health coverage.”<\/p>\n

The company said it countered with a 21.5% raise before the strike began.<\/p>\n

“Importantly, the increase is higher than any other health care provider in the country and keeps our employees at above market pay and among the best paid caregivers in the country,” Kaiser Permanente said in a statement. “We have been informed by UNAC\/UHCP leadership that they have accepted our offer of across-the-board wage increases of 21.5%. This is good progress and moves us closer to a contract agreement.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strike lasting nearly a month in California and Hawaii will conclude on Tuesday morning after a union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-299708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}