Thousands of nurses, pharmacists, rehabilitation therapists and other specialty professionals working at Kaiser Permanente in the Bay Area joined the 31,000 on strike across California and Hawaii on Jan. 26.
According to the Associated Press, workers demanded a 25% wage increase, an offer Kaiser Permanente countered with a 21.5% raise and claimed would cost patients.
Hospitals have to recruit outside nurses to make up for the strikers, which leads to some patients having appointments online and rescheduling certain surgeries…