Alameda County’s initial allotment of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine is expected to arrive this Friday, county health officials said. “The big headline is, we don’t have it yet,” said Dr. Kathleen Clanon, medical director for Alameda County Health Care Services… Read More ›
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser, unions, reach tentative labor agreement
Kaiser Permanente and labor unions representing 80,000 health care workers in seven states, including 4,900 in the East Bay, agreed Wednesday morning to a tentative contract agreement. For Kaiser employees represented by the coalition of unions in California, the new… Read More ›
East Bay Kaiser Permanente employees set a strike date
Kaiser Permanente workers, including 4,900 in Alameda County, haveset a strike date: Oct. 14. The group of unions representing optometrists, laboratory scientists, x-ray technicians, licensed vocational nurses, and housekeepers, among a number of other types of workers, are billing the strike… Read More ›
Kaiser stymied strike vote in the East Bay after closing cafeteria meeting space
Kaiser Permanente management closed hospital cafeterias across the state Monday before a vote by some of its workers to authorize a strike this fall. The meeting spaces were closed at Kaiser hospitals in Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro, Fremont, Livermore, and… Read More ›
Hayward police shooting: Family says, months prior, Oakland officers aided similarly distressed Gonsalez
Hayward PD killed Agustin Gonsalez, who had battled depression, last November after receiving a call that he was brandishing a knife.