November 11th, 2019
Strike cancellation coverage amid Kaiser CEO’s passing
Several major news outlets in California reported on the cancellation of our strike following the sudden death of Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson. These stories included our perspective on Kaiser’s failure to treat mental health care with the same commitment as its other services. Here is an excerpt from a story on Tyson’s passing in the […]
November 10th, 2019
Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians postpone 5-day statewide strike following the death of Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson
Four thousand psychologists, mental health therapists and other medical professionals at Kaiser Permanente have postponed a five-day strike that was to set begin Monday in deference to the passing of Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson on Sunday. After learning of Tyson’s death, 170 member-leaders of the National Union of Healthcare Workers convened a call and voted […]
November 1st, 2019
Kaiser mental health strike
December 16-20, 2019 – 6am to 2pm Picket shifts are from 6 A.M. to 2 P.M. every day. There will be charter buses available to transport people to the Monday rally in San Francisco, the Tuesday rallies in Oakland and Los Angeles, and the Thursday rallies in Sacramento and at Kaiser’s Pasadena headquarters. Read the December […]
October 31st, 2019
News of the Month – October 2019
In the midst of the nation’s longest economic expansion, the separation between rich and poor is at a five-decade high. Cities like San Francisco and New York, which have a concentration of skilled workers in high-wage industries like tech and finance, experience higher levels of inequality than cities such as Detroit or Indianapolis, researchers at the […]
October 31st, 2019
Mental Health Clinicians establish round-the-clock vigils
In an escalation of their campaign to force Kaiser Permanente to fix its broken mental health system, Kaiser clinicians established an ongoing presence outside Kaiser’s corporate headquarters in Oakland and the Los Angeles Medical Center. Clinicians staked their claim to both locations in mid-October by unveiling 60-foot-long monuments that are adorned with some of the […]