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Kaiser strike ends, Kapiolani worker strike continues
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/kaiser-strike-ends-kapiolani-worker-strike-continues/
by: Nikki Schenfeld
Posted: Oct 19, 2025 / 05:50 PM HST
Updated: Oct 19, 2025 / 06:47 PM HST
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Thousands of healthcare workers are taking a stand for better pay, safer staffing, and improved working conditions — as one major hospital strike ends and another begins in Hawaiʻi.
More than 30,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and healthcare professionals from California and Hawaiʻi wrapped up a five-day strike this week, calling it a major step forward in the fight for patient safety.
Represented by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP), the workers walked out of more than 500 Kaiser facilities across California and Hawaiʻi. Union leaders said the demonstration sent a message that unsafe staffing can no longer be ignored.
“The Joint Commission has finally said what nurses have known all along: unsafe staffing is unsafe care,” said UNAC/UHCP President Charmaine Morales, RN. “Employers like Kaiser can no longer treat staffing like a budget line. It’s now a national patient safety mandate.”
FULL story at link above.