BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — On day four of the Kaiser Permanente health care worker strike, employees and the company aren’t any closer to reaching an agreement.
“The facts are that quality is not in dispute. Staffing is not in dispute. What’s in dispute are the wages. Plain and simple, we’ve offered a very fair agreement, a fair proposal, to our nurses and to our alliance represented unions,” said Camille Applin-Jones, Senior Vice President for Kaiser Permanente of Southern California.
Across California and Hawaii, 31,000 Kaiser employees have taken to the picket lines. Here in Bakersfield, dozens of employees are on the march outside Kaiser’s Stockdale Highway office…