85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are voting on whether to authorize a strike. If the Kaiser strike is authorized, it would be the nation's largest healthcare strike in history. As this summer — already jam-packed with labor activity — turns to fall, tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers could find themselves on the picket line. The vote will last through mid-September, said Dave Regan, president of the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, at a press conference on Thursday. With 85,000 members in its ranks, it would be the largest healthcare strike in the country's history, organizers say.

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Persons: Kaiser, Dave Regan, Kaiser Permanente, Regan, Wayne Davis, Davis, Caroline Lucas, Liz Grigsby, COVID, Grigsby, Catherine Engler, Engler Organizations: Kaiser Permanente, Morning, Coalition, Kaiser Permanente Unions, SEIU United Healthcare Workers, Union, Organizers Locations: Kaiser, California , Colorado , Oregon, Washington, DC, Hawaii , Maryland, Virginia, Colorado