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That could change on Wednesday when she becomes one of 75,000 workers who participate in the nation’s largest health care strike in history. During the Great Resignation in 2021-22, more than 5 million people left their health care jobs across the country. “Kaiser Permanente is not immune from these challenges.”While Kaiser admits to the difficult challenge of filling health care jobs, the stress to its current workers has contributed to increased labor tension in the health care industry. The increased number of health care strikes have happened despite health care workers making up only about 9% of private sector union members nationwide. “But for health care workers, it is different.
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It is just the latest in a series of job actions across the nation by nurses’ unions and other health care workers who say they had to strike in order to provide patients with quality health care. Of the 20 major strikes tracked by the Labor Department over the first 11 months of 2022, seven of them, or 35%, were in health care. The surge in health care related strikes comes despite the fact that only 3% of union members nationwide work at private sector health care jobs. “Labor is the main expense in health care, so how do you make money? If someone is tired, overworked, sleep deprived, they’re going to make more mistakes.”A nurse’s strike won’t help patients in the short term, he said.
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