• Press release: “40,000 Kaiser Workers Planning Sympathy Strike in Northern California”
• An Open Letter from SEIU-UHW Executive Board Leaders to Our Co-workers and Patients
• Carta Abierta de los Lideres de la Junta Ejecutiva de SEIU-UHW Dirigida a Nuestros Compañeros de Trabajo y Pacientes
• Fact Sheet on the Kaiser Sympathy Strike
• Hoja Informativa: Huelga De Solidaridad En Kaiser

Our SEIU-UHW Kaiser Executive Board voted to call on our 30,000 SEIU-UHW Kaiser union members in Northern California to support Local 39 engineers in a 24-hour sympathy strike on Nov. 18, 2021 to protest Kaiser’s unfair labor practices and disrespect of healthcare workers.

We know that an injury to one is an injury to all. 

The Kaiser Permanente many people once thought of as the provider of choice in the labor movement is unrecognizable today. Sadly, Kaiser is choosing a different path, engaging in union-busting and economic bullying by forcing the engineer strike to continue for more than seven weeks.

Just like us, the engineers have been on the front lines working to keep our facilities operating safely during the COVID-19 crisis. Kaiser’s position that they (and we) are “overpaid” is demeaning, especially as it continues to rake in billions of dollars in profits and pays dozens of executives million-dollar-salaries.

If we stand by and watch Kaiser commit unfair labor practices to break the engineers’ strike, then we can expect the same when we go to bargain in less than two years.