{"id":486431,"date":"2026-02-23T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:24:08","slug":"kaiser-permanente-nurses-announce-end-to-strike-with-plan-to-return-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486431\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Permanente nurses announce end to strike with plan to return to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; After four weeks on strike, nurses and health care professionals will return to work Tuesday across Kaiser Permanente facilities in California and Hawai\u2019i. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The work stoppage was the largest open-ended strike of registered nurses and health care professionals in United States history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unacuhcp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.unacuhcp.org\/\">United Nurses Associations of California\/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC\/UHCP)<\/a>, said 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the union, 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UNAC\/UHCP has formally notified Kaiser Permanente that the strike will conclude effective Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 7 a.m. PT and 7 a.m. HST. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There will be no picket lines on Monday, Feb. 23, as the union and employer finalize return-to-work agreements. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On January 26, 2026, 31,000 members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unacuhcp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.unacuhcp.org\/\">UNAC\/UHCP<\/a> went on strike after national negotiations with Kaiser stalled. Since March 2025, UNAC\/UHCP has been in contract negotiations with the health care giant, as the union representing frontline caregivers seeks a contract with provisions to address chronic staffing shortages that impact patient care. <\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUS COVERAGE:<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; After four weeks on strike, nurses and health care professionals will return to work Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,9537,64424],"class_list":["post-486431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-kaiser-permanente","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}