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April 7, 2025
The facts: NUHW negotiations
Despite what NUHW's leadership claims, they are demanding more pay to care for fewer patients.
We find it deeply concerning that NUHW leadership would place the health and well-being of employees at risk by endorsing and promoting a hunger strike. It is unsafe and directly contradicts the principles of care and responsibility that define our profession.
These are the facts about the National Union of Healthcare Workers’ ongoing mischaracterizations:
- Kaiser Permanente continues to provide exceptional, timely access to care, despite what the union claims. Learn more information about how we’re meeting and exceeding health care access requirements.
- Our employees represented by NUHW in Southern California are currently paid significantly more than others in the market, and we’ve offered to increase wages an additional 19% over the next 4 years.
- NUHW is demanding wage increases that would put therapists’ pay more than 30% above their peers in Southern California — while also proposing to reduce the amount of time therapists have to see patients by thousands of appointments each month.
- NUHW claims its members don’t have a pension. That is not true.
- The path to resolving our differences should be worked at the bargaining table. We have offered NUHW new bargaining dates.
