Some 75,000 unionized healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente, one of the top U.S. medical employers, entered the third day of a planned 72-hour strike on Friday, as contract talks focusing on staffing shortages and pay appeared to remain in a stalemate.
Nurses, medical technicians and other support personnel at hundreds of Kaiser hospitals and clinics in California, Oregon, Washington state, Colorado, Virginia and the District Columbia, took to picket lines on Wednesday morning in the largest strike ever in the U.S. healthcare sector.
Kaiser, a leading nonprofit hospital network and managed-care organization, said then that progress had been made on some unspecified issues. In any case, Lucas said, the striking workers will all return to their jobs by 6 a.m. on Saturday, 72 hours after the strike began, because healthcare workers by law must give advance notice of 10 days of any intent to go on strike.BURNOUT AND HIGH TURNOVER
Union officials have said their demand for higher pay was another major point of contention, while the company had argued that it already led competitors in total compensation packages in every market where Kaiser operates.
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