April 24th, 2014
Kaiser mental health clinicians hold one-day strike in Oakland
More than seventy-five Kaiser Permanente workers marched, picketed, chanted, and sang outside Oakland Medical Center Wednesday to call attention to deficiencies in Kaiser’s mental health services. Thirty-five Oakland adult services mental health clinicians — therapists, counselors, social workers, and psychologists — were joined by other clinicians, as well as nurses, building engineers, and patients […]
April 22nd, 2014
Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland clinicians launch strike to call to attention to mental health crisis
Cost-cutting and delayed access to care have resulted in severe hardships for Kaiser patients statewide, including several suicides EMERYVILLE — Clinicians at Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center are launching a one-day strike April 23 to call attention to deficiencies in Kaiser’s mental health services that have led to severe hardships for patients and their families throughout […]
April 22nd, 2014
Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland clinicians launch strike to call to attention to mental health crisis
Cost-cutting and delayed access to care have resulted in severe hardships for Kaiser patients statewide, including several suicides Clinicians at Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center are launching a one-day strike on Wednesday, April 23, to call attention to deficiencies in Kaiser’s mental health services that have led to severe hardships for patients and their families throughout […]
April 22nd, 2014
Open letter to Connie Wilson and Gay Westfall
As clinicians in the Oakland Kaiser Psychiatry Department, we are proud to be standing up for our patients. We are striking to hold Kaiser accountable to provide the quality care it promises in its Thrive marketing campaign, but rarely delivers. We are striking because: • We protest the recently implemented block intake system because it […]
April 22nd, 2014
Statement to Kaiser Permanente Administration and IBHS Professionals
To Kaiser Permanente Administration and IBHS Professionals, Over the last three years many of us have grown familiar with the distorted communications coming out of the office of Kaiser’s senior HR management, their report of the bargaining process related to the labor issues at OAK/RCH is once again predictably simplistic and flawed. To say that “we […]