Thu Oct 5, 2023 – 12:39 pm EDTThu Oct 5, 2023 – 1:14 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Healthcare company Kaiser Permanente is currently facing a 75,000-worker strike, as union leaders seek higher pay and more hiring to address a staffing shortage.
“Employees on the picket lines include nursing staff, dietary workers, receptionists, optometrists, and pharmacists,” according to CNN. Workers walked off the job in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and California, though employees in Virginia and Washington, D.C., also went on strike for a day.
“Frontline healthcare workers are awaiting a meaningful response from Kaiser executives regarding some of our key priorities including safe staffing, outsourcing protections for incumbent healthcare workers, and fair wages to reduce turnover,” a spokesman for the unions said last night.
A search of Kaiser’s job database shows it is looking to hire at least 2,400 nurses and over 240 pharmacists and pharmacy techs.
But one reason the healthcare system might have a staffing shortage is because it mandated that all employees receive the COVID-19 jabs, boasting at the time that it was one of the first medical organizations to do so.
On August 2, 2021, the company “announced it will make COVID-19 vaccinations
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