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Kaiser Permanente Workers Launch 5-Day Strike Across California, Hawaii and Oregon

The dispute centers on staffing, pay, plus Kaiser’s 21.5% four-year offer.

Kaiser Permanente in Oakland.  On Monday, the company called a planned five-day strike “unnecessary and disruptive” as tens of thousands of nurses and health workers prepare to walk out.
Health care workers demonstrate outside Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center on Geary Boulevard on October 4, 2023 in San Francisco.  On Monday, the company called a planned five-day strike “unnecessary and disruptive” as tens of thousands of nurses and health workers prepare to walk out.
Mental health care workers icket outside of the Kaiser Permanente facility in Oakland on Aug. 16, 2022 over workload issues. On Monday, Kaiser Permanente called a planned five-day strike “unnecessary and disruptive” as tens of thousands of nurses and health workers prepare to walk out.
Kaiser workers strike at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. (File photo: Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)

Overview

  • Picket lines begin at 7 a.m. Tuesday and are scheduled to end at 7 a.m. Sunday, covering more than 200 facilities with actions concentrated in California and Hawaii and coordinated walkouts in Oregon and southwest Washington.
  • About 31,000 United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals members are striking, joined by roughly 4,000 Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals members, with the Alliance indicating up to 46,000 workers are eligible.
  • Unions say they seek safe staffing, equitable pay, benefits and a stronger frontline voice, calling this the largest strike in UNAC/UHCP’s history.
  • Kaiser says hospitals and clinics will remain open, will shift some appointments to virtual care and may reschedule non-urgent visits or elective procedures, and is onboarding up to 7,600 temporary or returning staff with more than 1,000 internal reassignments.
  • Pay remains the central gap, with Kaiser offering a 21.5% raise over four years and asserting Alliance-represented workers earn about 16% above market, while unions push roughly 25% and point to inflation and recent WARN-noticed layoffs of about 215 mostly administrative and IT roles in California.