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    Commentary: Why the Kaiser Permanente strike may signal more health care labor unrest to come

    by Shira Fischer, Los Angeles Times Oct 10, 2023 2 minutes
    Thousands of health care workers march down Sunset Boulevard to call for the urgent need for improved working conditions, better support systems and increased investment in the health care workforce at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Hollywood on Sept. 4, 2023, in Los Angeles.

    More than 75,000 nurses, nursing assistants, technicians, pharmacists and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike in California and beyond this week. Their unions say it’s the largest healthcare strike in recent U.S. history.

    It is indeed unusual for American medical workers to go on strike. Lives are, after all, in their hands, raising the stakes of any walkout. But

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