Important Takeaways:

• Largest-ever health care strike looms
• The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents more than 85,000 health care workers in seven states and the District of Columbia, said Sunday it did not reach an agreement before the contract expired at 11:59 p.m. PT on Saturday.
• The coalition said it remains at odds with the nonprofit Kaiser Permanente on issues including higher wages, better retirement benefits and job protections.
• “Kaiser continues to bargain in bad faith over these issues and, so far, there is no light at the end of the tunnel,” the coalition said in a statement Saturday night.
• The coalition’s national bargaining team submitted a 10-day notice to the nonprofit executives on Sept. 22. Strikes are set to start on Wednesday at 6 a.m. if an agreement is not reached.
• The strike could last until 6 a.m. on Saturday, and hundreds of leaders were recently trained on how to run a picket line, the coalition said.
• Kaiser Permanente, the largest nonprofit health care provider in the U.S., reported profits topping $3 billion in the first half of 2023.

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