Tag: Kaiser Permanente
Major strikes drew 13% more workers in 2025 as sanitation, aerospace...
Federal figures count only stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers, which EPI says leaves out many people who walk off the job, while a broader university tracker recorded a slight decline in total work stoppage activity.
Massive Kaiser strike exposes deepening conflict over staffing, care, and corporate...
More than 31,000 nurses and healthcare workers walk off the job amid claims of unsafe conditions and stalled negotiations.
Largest healthcare worker strike in US history set to kick off...
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in six states and Washington, D.C. are set to stop working for three days starting Wednesday to protest unfair working conditions and unsafe staffing levels.
Why is Kaiser Permanente engaging in corporate Kabuki?
Ahead of a potentially historic strike, a major nonprofit health care provider seems to be choosing corporate values over worker rights—and by extension, patient care.
Kaiser Permanente launches medical school with free tuition for the first...
With Kaiser Permanente's recent announcement, it is now the second medical school in the United States to become tuition-free and "eliminate the financial barrier to achieving a medical degree."
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Warren, Ocasio-Cortez introduce bill to ban corporate ownership of physician practices
The bill would let doctors sue corporate owners for treble damages and give the Federal Trade Commission a role in enforcing the ban.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.
Trump administration moves to let accidental killing of endangered species go unpunished
A leaked memo would count only deliberate harm as a violation of the 1973 law, even though most protected species die by accident.