Under pressure that hasn’t eased since the pandemic, some health care workers are preparing to strike | CNN As the US hovers on the edge of another season of respiratory viruses, some health care workers are preparing to swap their medical instruments for picket signs, sounding the alarm about a staffing crisis that they say is already affecting patient care. Carma Hassan CNN

...union representatives are meeting for bargaining sessions with health care giant Kaiser Permanente ahead of the end of their contract on Saturday. If negotiations fail, more than 75,000 Kaiser health care workers could strike for three days next month at hundreds of locations across California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Virginia and Washington, D.C. 

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