Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal with Health Care Workers, Settles Behavioral Health Care Dispute

Kaiser Permanente has reached a tentative deal with over 75,000 of its health care workers following a three-day strike that disrupted services at hospitals and clinics. The labor dispute, which was the latest in a series between health care organizations and their employees, highlighted severe staffing shortages after the pandemic. The deal comes at a crucial time in the health labor market, with a significant exodus of staff members leaving the industry facing a shortage of workers. Union workers have been leveraging this situation to negotiate better terms.