More than 2,400 Kaiser Permanente nurses walked off the floor Tuesday morning, citing staffing ratios the union says have not been honored since a March arbitration ruling.
The walkout began at 7 a.m. across three Kaiser hospitals in the East Bay. Picketing nurses said they expected the action to last 24 hours, with a return-to-work timeline contingent on Kaiser meeting at the bargaining table later in the week.
“We have been documenting unsafe assignments for months,” said Erin Patel, an RN in Kaiser Oakland’s medical-surgical unit. “This is what it looks like when the desk stops listening.”
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J. Patel, RN ·
I worked the same floor in 2019 and the ratios were already drifting then. Glad to see this getting attention.
Anonymous ·
Note for editors: the March arbitration ruling is public — would be helpful to link the decision in the next update.
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