75,000 Kaiser Permanente Workers Walk Out Over Staffing and Wages

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Over 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente, the largest non-profit healthcare organization in the US, went on strike on Wednesday across multiple states. Unions are pushing Kaiser to address staffing shortages by hiring 10,000 more healthcare workers and offering higher wage increases than the 12.5-16% over four years currently proposed. Shortages have strained working conditions in health care and other industries. Kaiser reported $3 billion in profits for the first half of 2023 and over $24 billion over the last 5 years.

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00:00 It's Benzinga and here's what's on the block.

00:02 More than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente, the largest non-profit healthcare organization

00:08 in the United States, went on strike on Wednesday across multiple states.

00:12 Unions are pushing Kaiser to address staffing shortages by hiring 10,000 more healthcare

00:16 workers and offer higher wage increases than the 12.5 to 16 percent over four years currently

00:22 proposed.

00:23 Shortages have strained working conditions in healthcare and other industries.

00:27 Kaiser reported $3 billion in profits for the first half of 2023 and over $24 billion

00:33 in profits over the last five years.

00:35 For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.

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