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Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Health Care Workers

The proposed settlement follows a three-day strike involving thousands of unionized workers in several states.

Kaiser Permanente reached a tentative deal with more than 75,000 of its health care workers Friday morning, a week after a three-day walkout that disrupted appointments and services at many hospitals and clinics.

The labor dispute was the latest in a series between health care systems and their employees, many of whom cite exhaustion, burnout and frustration with severe staffing shortages that have persisted long past the worst of the pandemic’s crushing workload.