A labor contract for thousands of unionized health care workers across five states and Washington, DC, is set to expire on Saturday at 11:59 pm PT, potentially triggering the largest health care strike in US history.
More than 75,000 health care employees who work at hundreds of Kaiser Permanente facilities plan to strike from October 4 through October 7 if a labor deal is not reached.
While hospital management, doctors and registered nurses are not part of the work stoppage, experts say patients at Kaiser Permanente, which is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health providers, would likely feel the effects of the strike.
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