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Tens of thousands of healthcare workers strike across the country

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Nurses on the picket line in front of New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in upper Manhattan, as the strike entered it’s 6th day.Credit: Joe Tabacca/Shutterstock.

Around 31,000 healthcare workers in California and Hawaii joined the picket line Jan. 26 as the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care  Professionals and Kaiser Permanente reached an impasse in contract negotiations.

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