{"id":356691,"date":"2026-03-31T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356691\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:59:07","slug":"health-care-workers-overwhelmingly-ratify-kaiser-permanente-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356691\/","title":{"rendered":"Health care workers overwhelmingly ratify Kaiser Permanente contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 More than 4,500 Kaiser Permanente health care workers in Oregon and southwest Washington have approved a new labor contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals says about 90% of members voted to ratify the agreement, which includes 21.5% wage increases across the board with some workers seeing more than 30% total increases over the life of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Union leaders say the deal also protects health and retirement benefits and aligns contract expiration dates across multiple bargaining units.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement follows months of negotiations and <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/kaiser-permanente-workers-strike-in-oregon-and-washington-join-nationwide-picket-lines-sunnyside-sarina-roher-ofnhp-clackamas-multnomah-washington-marion-clark-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a five-day strike last October<\/a> involving tens of thousands of Kaiser workers nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Union leaders say the contract is aimed at improving staffing conditions and supporting patient care moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 More than 4,500 Kaiser Permanente health care workers in Oregon and southwest Washington have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-356691","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\/356691","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=356691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}