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Kaiser Permanente

Collective bargaining

Unions reach tentative national deal with Kaiser Permanente

Following strikes and 11 months of rocky negotiations, new agreements raise wages 21.5% over the next three years and eight months.
Health Care

Kaiser pays half a billion to settle fraud case

According to the government, Kaiser defrauded Medicare in California and Colorado to the tune of about $1 billion over a period of 10 years.
Collective bargaining

California Kaiser strike now in week four

More than 31,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California and Hawaii have been on an open-ended strike since Jan. 26.
Collective bargaining

Kaiser inches closer to a new union contract

With the last contracts having expired Sept. 30, this is the longest Kaiser workers have gone without a new contract in more than 25 years.
Analysis

2025: The rest of the story

Since the start of 2025, we’ve reported over 400 stories. Here's an update about what’s happened since we last reported on some of them. 
Collective bargaining

After the strike, still no deal with Kaiser Permanente

Nearly 45,000 Kaiser workers struck for better pay and respect; weeks later, unions say little progress has been made.
Collective bargaining

Kaiser Permanente workers on strike in four states 

Following decades of labor peace, it’s the fourth strike at Kaiser since 2023.
Collective bargaining

Kaiser Permanente staff may strike over pay, staffing

4,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in Oregon and Washington are set to strike Oct. 14 for up to five days. Their contract expired Sept. 30.
Collective bargaining

Early tremors appear in Kaiser bargaining

Kaiser Permanente contract negotiations are heating up after the healthcare system retracted a tentative agreement on successorship.
Collective bargaining

Kaiser settles with engineers on eve of strike

The 86 workers who keep Kaiser's equipment going got a decent offer only after they gave Kaiser a 10-day notice that they planned to strike.
Health Care

UFCW Local 555 health trust drops Kaiser, citing wait times

The decision to drop Kaiser Permanente as a health care option for members will cost Kaiser $18 million a year.
Collective bargaining

UFCW Local 555 ends strike at Kaiser

The union is still seeking to put pressure on the company by encouraging patients to drop Kaiser, saying their health care could be at risk.
Collective bargaining

Seattle Kaiser workers get contract too

One day before a planned strike, SEIU Local 1199NW reached a tentative agreement for a local add-on to Kaiser Permanente's national contract.
Buying Union

Kaiser Permanente now on AFL-CIO “unfair” lists

With members of UFCW Local 555 on strike, the Oregon AFL-CIO and Northwest Oregon Labor Council have designated Kaiser as an unfair employer.
Collective bargaining

The biggest health care strike in U.S. history

75,000 workers struck Kaiser Permanente for 3 days. Now a 4-year agreement brokered by the U.S. Secretary of Labor provides 21% raises.
Collective bargaining

Biggest ever Kaiser strike starts with pharmacy workers

Northwest pharmacists walked out Oct. 1, and 75,000 other Kaiser workers in five states began their own strike Oct. 4.
Collective bargaining

Strike vote at Kaiser

Workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in seven states and Washington D.C. are voting on a strike authorization through Sept. 16.
Collective bargaining

Pickets back up at Kaiser Permanente

SEIU Local 49 picketed three hospitals July 24-28 to protest unsafe staffing and draw attention to difficulty getting a new union contract.
Union democracy

Union nurse appointed to number two spot in Oregon AFL-CIO

Sarina Roher is a Kaiser Permanente RN and executive secretary of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP).
Health Care

Nurses are getting vocal

Hospitals don’t seem to be taking aggressive action to address overwork and unsafe staffing levels, which is leading to a vicious cycle of burnout.
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