We thank those Coalition-represented employees who have chosen to come to work and care for our patients, members, and communities. Thousands of qualified and trained contract staff are joining our Kaiser Permanente teams this week as well, to help meet our members’ and patients’ needs. Our facilities will continue to be staffed by our physicians, trained and experienced managers, and our great staff. We have robust plans in place to ensure members continue to receive safe, high-quality care during the strike.Īll our hospitals and emergency departments remain open. Because we are such a large organization, with multiple ways that members can access care, the impact of the strike is different at various locations. The health and wellbeing of our members and patients is our top priority. In total over the past two years, Kaiser Permanente has hired more than 50,000 people to join our teams. We agreed this would be a great success if we could hire that many people into Coalition roles by the end of this year. We are committed to addressing every area of staffing that is still challenging.Īs a reminder: In April we agreed with the Coalition to a joint goal of hiring 10,000 people by the end of this year into jobs the Coalition cares about. On the same day that the Coalition strikes began, we’re pleased to confirm that we’ve met our goal of hiring 10,000 new Coalition-represented employees by year-end – and it is only October 4th. We will work hard to reach an agreement so that together, we can all return to delivering on the mission of Kaiser Permanente for the benefit of our members, patients, employees, physicians, customers, and communities. We will coordinate with Coalition leaders to reconvene bargaining as soon as possible. We are committed to finding workable solutions for this new environment that meet our responsibility to balance taking care of our employees and being affordable to our members. Kaiser Permanente, our industry, and our employees are now operating in a new cultural, labor, and post-pandemic environment that we are all working hard to understand. Together, we have faced the toughest challenges over the past three years. We remain committed to reaching a new agreement that continues to provide our employees with market-leading wages, excellent benefits, generous retirement income plans, and valuable professional development opportunities.
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