More than 31,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers remained on strike Tuesday, demanding the company come back to the national bargaining table to complete negotiations over staffing, wages and benefits.
“We are here to help Kaiser thrive, and if they let us, we will make Kaiser the place people want to work at again,” Nicole Wooten, a registered nurse at the Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center, said in an interview with The Riverside Record. “If Kaiser won’t do it, and Kaiser doesn’t care about being the best place to work, the best place to get safe patient care, then that is our job as a union and as nurses to make it happen.”
Wooten, who is also the Kaiser Riverside Registered Nurses – Union of Health Care Professionals (KRRN-UHCP) Hospital President, said United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) first started bargaining the now expired contract last March. With the two sides unable to come to an agreement, the contract expired September 30, 2025…