A tentative contract settlement was reached early today, revitalizing Kaiser’s long-standing worker-management partnership and ensuring it is the best place to receive and give care.

Teamsters Joint Council 42 and Joint Council 7, representing a combined 350,000 workers and retirees in California, voted to support an unfair labor practices strike beginning Oct. 14.

More than 4,500 Kaiser healthcare providers in the Washington, D.C. region, along with 4,200+ workers in San Diego, and 2,600+ in the Bay Area voted “yes” to a nationwide strike.

Licensed Vocational Nurse Mikki Fletchall shares her first-hand experience at Kaiser and advocates for her fellow workers and patients to receive better care.

We write to you as concerned leaders in the California faith community. We represent tens of thousands of parishioners across the state from hardworking families, many of whom are Kaiser patients.

A Bay Area union of 1,700 Kaiser Permanente optometrists, laboratory scientists, geneticists and home health therapists recently voted to authorize a sympathy strike in support of the more than 80,000 other Kaiser workers.

More than 80,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in six states and the District of Columbia will begin a nationwide, seven-day unfair labor practices strike Oct. 14.

Emergency Room Assistant Jose Rivera shares his first-hand experience at Kaiser and advocates for his fellow workers and patients to receive better care.

Kaiser Colorado workers turned out in large numbers to overwhelmingly authorize a strike in early October.

Presidential Candidates, Speaker Pelosi, U.S. Sens. Wyden and Merkley, Denver City Council urge Kaiser to get back on track.

Laboratory Technician Lanette G. shares her first-hand experience at Kaiser and advocates for her fellow workers and patients to receive better care.

Kaiser must follow more of the same financial disclosure laws as other healthcare providers and payers in California, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 343 into law Sept. 5.

Licensed Vocational Nurse Vladimir R. shares his first-hand experience at Kaiser and advocates for his fellow workers and patients to receive better care.

Dozens of Workers to Engage in Civil Disobedience; Urge Healthcare Giant Get Back on Track before October Walkout

Kaiser workers in Oregon and Washington are prepared to do what it takes to get Kaiser back on track as the healthcare provider that helps patients, employees and communities thrive.

Legislation requiring Kaiser to follow more of the same financial disclosure laws as other healthcare providers in CA passed the Senate and now heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has 10 days to decide whether to sign it into law.

SB 343 would require Kaiser Permanente to provide more data justifying increases in health insurance premiums, as is presently required of other health insurance companies.

Kaiser refused to sign the “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,” calling on companies to shift from making shareholders their main focus to including all of their stakeholders, including employees and the community. 

The mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and Portland have withdrawn from the panel discussion on homelessness, saying they will not cross the picket line.

Kaiser Permanente is a “non-profit” healthcare system, but lately it has not been acting that way.

Kaiser Permanente workers in California poured out in large numbers to overwhelmingly authorize a strike in early October that would be the biggest in the United States in more than two decades. 

Kaiser Permanente gets huge tax breaks as a non-profit, meaning that at the same time it is taking in billions in profits it pays no income taxes and virtually no taxes to support schools, parks, roads, bridges, police, fire and other important community needs.

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers in Oregon and Washington will begin voting to authorize a nationwide unfair labor practices strike this week.

More than 80,000 Kaiser Permanente workers, including those in Sacramento, are starting their second week of strike authorization votes.

More than 80,000 Kaiser Permanente workers began voting July 29 to authorize a nationwide unfair labor practices strike.

More than 80,000 Kaiser Permanente workers will begin voting to authorize a nationwide unfair labor practices strike Monday, July 29, including casting ballots from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, 4867 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. 

Leading Democratic presidential candidates are lining up behind 85,000 employees at Kaiser Permanente who are preparing to launch the country’s largest strike in more than two decades.

More than 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are making preparations for a national strike to begin this fall as contract talks between the workers and the giant, non-profit healthcare corporation broke off.

Kaiser Permanente would no longer be able to hide details of a $7.7 billion compensation scheme with its already highly paid executives and doctors under legislation passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kaiser caregivers are conducting a brief survey of Kaiser members to look for ways to improve your health care and customer service experience. Take the survey here.

Efforts to require healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente to operate under the same financial and rate reporting requirements as other hospitals and insurance companies advanced in the California Assembly.

The board of the nation’s largest public pension fund voted to endorse state legislation that would require healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente to operate under the same requirements as other hospitals and insurance companies.

This analysis looks at the total compensation for the CEO and other executives of Kaiser Permanente. In recent years, Kaiser, a non-profit, has raised total CEO compensation to $16 million, while taking a hard line with its employees about pay, health benefits and job security.

“Thrive,” the ubiquitous motto of Kaiser Permanente — one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plans — has now become the ironic symbol of a corporation that has lost its way.