The Labor Day action outside a Kaiser Permanente facility came amid an ongoing strike authorization vote.
Demonstrators form a human circle at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Hollywood on September 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.Dozens of healthcare workers were arrested in Los Angeles on Monday after sitting in the street outside of a Kaiser Permanente facility to demand that providers address dangerously low staffing levels at hospitals in California and across the country.
The civil disobedience came as the workers prepared for what could be the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history. Late last month, 85,000 Kaiser Permanente employees represented by the began voting on whether to authorize a strike over the nonprofit hospital system’s alleged unfair labor practices during ongoing contract negotiations.“We are burnt out, stretched thin, and fed up after years of the pandemic and chronic short staffing,” Datosha Williams, a service representative at Kaiser Permanente South Bay, said Monday. “Healthcare providers are failing workers and patients, and we are at crisis levels in our hospitals and medical centers.
“Our employers take in billions of dollars in profits, yet they refuse to safely staff their facilities or pay many of their workers a living wage,” Williams added. “We are prepared to do whatever it takes, even get arrested in an act of civil disobedience, to stand up for our patients.”
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