31,000 Kaiser Workers End 4-Week Strike

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other frontline health care workers at Kaiser Permanente ended their four-week strike on Monday and will return to work on Tuesday across facilities in California and Hawaii.

The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals announced the decision after what it described as significant progress in negotiations over the past 48 hours. The walkout, which began on January 27, sought improvements in wages and staffing levels to address rising patient demands and compensation that union members said had fallen behind inflation and peer rates. No specific details on the bargaining breakthroughs or terms of a potential agreement were released, but the union stated that resuming work would allow members to return to patient care while teams finalize outstanding issues.

Union representatives emphasized the strike's impact in pushing discussions forward. "Returning our members to patient care and their livelihoods is the clearest path to success as we capitalize on the progress you made possible," the union said in a statement. This marked the second major labor action by the union against Kaiser in recent months. A...