June 5th, 2019
Video: This Kaiser therapist is ready to go on strike for better patient care
Alicia Cruz is a therapist at the Kaiser Permanente Thrive Medical Center in San Francisco. Alicia’s group therapy sessions are so crowded that many people have to sit on the floor. Four thousand Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians and health care professionals are set to begin an open-ended strike on Tuesday, June 11, all across […]
June 2nd, 2019
California Democratic Party passes resolution calling on Kaiser to improve its mental health services
The California Democratic Party passed a resolution Sunday, June 2, calling on Kaiser Permanente to achieve “full parity for mental health patients” by “boosting clinician staffing to levels sufficient to ensure timely access to appropriate care” and providing “Kaiser’s mental health clinicians with the same raises and benefits enjoyed by all other members of Kaiser’s […]
June 2nd, 2019
Kaiser mental health clinicians to strike over patient access to care
UPDATE 6/9/19: Following progress at the bargaining table, the member-led bargaining teams representing 4,000 Kaiser mental health clinicians and healthcare professionals throughout California voted unanimously Sunday to call off an open-ended strike scheduled to begin Tuesday. In calling off the strike, the clinicians are accepting the challenge put forth Friday by Senate President Pro Tempore […]
May 31st, 2019
Kaiser workers authorize strike, win support of Berkeley Council
June is shaping up to be a critical month for the 4,000 Kaiser mental health workers and health care professionals who have been without a contract since September. More than 80 percent of Kaiser psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists and psychiatric nurses authorized an open-ended strike which could begin in June. With negotiations […]
May 31st, 2019
Janus of Santa Cruz workers and community allies picket for fair wages
Dozens of workers and community allies picketed Santa Cruz County’s largest non-profit drug rehabilitation center picketed Thursday to protest low pay that has resulted in massive worker turnover and growing waits for patients to access the center’s drug rehabilitation services. The picket was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KION and Univsion. In the 18 […]