Job protections against Kaiser’s subcontracting and outsourcing plans.
Increased hiring and training to end chronic short staffing. Minimum staffing guidelines that ensure safe patient care. The RNs and NPs urge management to invest in nursing staff and agree to a contract that provides: The nurses in Northern California have been negotiating since June 2022. Kaiser registered nurses and nurse practitioners have been in negotiations for a new contract with little to no movement on key issues. Nurses at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center will hold a two-day strike on Nov. 1, nurses at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center joined their Northern California nurse colleagues in holding informational pickets for a total of more than 22,000 nurses. Nurses always give at least 10 days of advance notice to the hospital to allow for alternative plans to be made for patient care. This 10-days’ notice of their strike follows a nearly unanimous strike authorization vote earlier this month. 10 that they would strike, making this one of the biggest private-sector nurses strikes in U.S. The nurses, who work at 21 Kaiser facilities in Northern California, notified their employer on Nov. 22, to protest the administration’s refusal to address their ongoing concerns about workplace health and safety and chronic short staffing, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) today. In a historic year for nurses strikes, more than 21,000 registered nurses and nurse practitioners at 21 Kaiser Permanente facilities will hold a two-day strike on Monday, Nov. "We're really interested in settling this and getting our nurses and our union back to the table, so we can negotiate and move forward.More than 21,000 union nurses at 21 Kaiser facilities in Northern California to strike on Nov. We believe it's very generous," Beatty said. "We feel very strongly about our proposal and we feel very strongly about our package. In an interview with NPR, Dale Beatty, chief nurse executive for Stanford Health Care, said Stanford values its nurses and its contract offer reflects that. "Things have started to change into more of a business-over-patients kind of situation," Reed told ABC 7. 
Reed, who has worked as a nurse at Stanford for 18 years, told ABC 7 News that she has seen a shift in culture at the hospital over time.
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really want change in the hospitals and the only way to get that is to stand up and fight," said ICU clinical nurse Kimberley Reed in an interview with local TV station ABC 7 News.
The labor contracts for the nurses at both hospitals expired on March 31. The union says nurses gave the hospitals notice on April 13 of their intention to strike after hospital management and the union did not reach an agreement. "As one of the nation's top health care systems, Stanford and Packard have an opportunity to demonstrate leadership and work with nurses to solve the burnout and exhaustion that is driving many of us to reconsider our jobs and our profession," said Colleen Borges, president of CRONA and a pediatric oncology nurse at Packard Children's Hospital in a news release.Ĭan you hear us? #StanfordStrike #UnionStrong #WeBeforeMe /D3IAJRHO6P- CRONAnurses April 25, 2022 The union says 93% of nurses voted to authorize the strike. The nurses from both hospitals went on strike Monday morning after the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA), the labor union representing the nurses, announced the strike on Sunday. Nearly 5,000 nurses at Stanford Health Care and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., went on strike Monday as they negotiate for better pay, more staffing and more support for their mental health. About 5,000 nurses at Stanford and Packard Children's Hospital began a strike Monday over a fight for what they describe as fair contracts.ĭavid Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Health care workers during a strike in Palo Alto, Calif., on Monday.
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