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Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers in Southern California and beyond are returning to work Saturday following a three- day strike billed as the largest of its type in U.S. history.
"As frontline healthcare workers conclude the current strike action on Saturday morning, our resolve to advocate for the safe staffing that our patients need has never been stronger," Georgette Bradford, an ultrasound technician from Sacramento who is a member of the union's bargaining team, said in a statement released Friday by the union.
"We are fortunate that most procedures were not delayed or deferred, most routine surgeries were not rescheduled and our ambulatory appointment access has been close to normal, in part because we expanded access just prior to the visit and converted many appointments to phone and video. "Now more than ever Kaiser Permanente needs to retain and attract qualified healthcare professionals. Outsourcing and subcontracting would have the opposite effect," Kathleen Coleman, a medical assistant at Arapahoe Primary Care in Colorado, said in a statement released by the union Friday.
"At issue, health care workers say, are a series of unfair labor practices related to bargaining in bad faith, along with simmering staff concerns related to unsafe staffing levels that can lead to dangerously long wait times, mistaken diagnosis, and neglect," according to an earlier union statement.
"Health care workers within the coalition remain ready to meet at any time. Currently, the strike continues, and there are no sessions scheduled at this hour."Kaiser officials said the most recent bargaining sessions did result in a"number of tentative agreements," and they insisted the health care system's latest offers address the union's demands.
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