Tens of thousands of union Kaiser Permanente workers have informed the system they intend to strike on Oct. 14.
The 10-day notices given Friday come from multiple member locals of the Alliance of Health Care Unions whose labor contracts had expired with the new month. Of the roughly 62,000 Kaiser employees represented by unions in the Alliance, around 50,000 have seen their contracts expire and “nearly all” have given strike notices, the unions said.
The walk-off is set to last for “no longer than five days,” the unions said, and will include workers at dozens of hospitals in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington…