Health care workers rally at Kaiser Permanente headquarters in Pasadena as strike enters fifth week

Health care workers rally at Kaiser Permanente headquarters in Pasadena as strike enters fifth week 
Pasadena Now, Pasadena, CA; by Eddie Rivera; 11/22/24 
More than 300 Kaiser Permanente mental health workers and their supporters marched Thursday, November 21 around the healthcare giant’s regional headquarters on Walnut Street in Pasadena, marking the fifth week of a statewide strike over working conditions and patient care concerns. The Pasadena demonstration, coordinated with a similar rally in Oakland, highlighted tensions between Kaiser Permanente and its mental health professionals represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers. ... “We’re tired of the working conditions that Kaiser’s providing for us,” said Marisela Calvillo, a licensed clinical social worker who led the demonstration. ... Calvillo said she was seeing patients every 30 minutes without breaks while struggling to complete required documentation during lunch periods. She said therapists are given approximately two minutes per patient for administrative tasks, affecting her caseload of 86 patients.