1,500 Kaiser Mental Health Clinicians Authorize Strike
About 1,500 mental health clinicians -- including therapists, psychiatric social workers and psychologists -- at Northern California Kaiser Permanente have voted to strike over contract negotiations. The workers are represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers. They have been working for more than four years without a contract.
- "Kaiser Mental Health Workers Authorize Strike" (Parr, Oakland Tribune, 10/21).