More than 4,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in San Diego, and 70,000 more across the country, are poised to launch a three-day strike that their union says will be the largest of its type in U.S. history, contract talks between the provider and union negotiators continued throughout the day Tuesday in hopes of averting the walkout.
Late Tuesday afternoon, a Kaiser spokesman told City News Service the talks were continuing"and could last into the night."
"Kaiser executives are refusing to listen to us and are bargaining in bad faith over the solutions we need to end the Kaiser short-staffing crisis," Jessica Cruz, a licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center -- one of the planned picket locations -- said in a statement released by the union Monday.
According to the union, there will be additional pickets at Kaiser facilities across the state, including Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and Orange counties. Among the workers involved in a strike would be licensed vocational nurses, emergency department technicians, radiology technicians, ultrasound sonographers, teleservice representatives, respiratory therapists, X-ray technicians, certified nursing assistants, dietary services, behavioral health workers, surgical technicians, pharmacy technicians, transporters, home health aides, phlebotomists and medical assistants, union officials said.
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