Kaiser Permanente Workers Begin 5-Day Strike
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The walkout — which is slated to end by 7 a.m. Sunday — involves about 4,000 employees who work at Kaiser’s Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro and dozens of clinics and surgical centers stretching along the Interstate 5 corridor from Longview, Washington, to Eugene.
The roughly 6,000 health care professionals of the OFNHP are locked in a contract fight with their employer, Kaiser Permanente, the sprawling health care consortium. The mediocrity in question is not that of the staffers themselves;