Law enforcement officers were seen responding to protesting outside the Caiser Los Angeles Medical Center in the East Hollywood region, led by a union accused of the medical giant of the conditions of unfair employment.
At 12:40 pm, a group of officers were seen walking about ten protesters sitting in the center of sunset street directly outside the hospital, which is located in 4867 W. Sunseet Blvd. – Forming a circle during the holding of the signs. After about five minutes, at least two people were accompanied by protest in handcuffs, as shown in air footage.
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Mental health workers were amazing for a period of four months, with no ongoing negotiations because they accused Kaiser Permanente of unfair working conditions that they say led to a lack of patient care. Kaiser refuted these allegations and defended the wages that these workers received in southern California.
Before the demonstration on Friday, the governor of the state, Gavin News, called for the settlement of the months of the months, saying that the previous challenges of the fatwa and deadly forests in the Los Angeles Province led to an “unprecedented rise in the need to support behavioral health.”
He wrote that this increasing demand was especially seen in southern California, “where thousands of California residents are struggling with the severe loss and displacement of the recent forest fires that destroyed societies …”
Members of the National Union of Health Care workers and mental health workers in Kaiser Bederonte were expected to travel from the sit -in lines throughout Southern California to participate in the demonstration.
The Federation claims that the lack of employees has led to excessive waiting times, waiting times and other issues. In 2023, Kaiser Permanente was fined at $ 50 million in a settlement with the California Healthcare Ministry, and agreed to make changes that address problems with behavioral health care services.
According to the Federation, the increase in demand for medical services after the recent forest fires in the province may strain more and the benefits of retirement that equals what most Kaiser employees earn. Al -Ittihad said it is not expected that employment negotiators in Kaiser will return to the bargaining table until March 6.
“We are after four months of the strike, and Kaiser behaves like mental health services, when he was cited due to severe waiting times and illegally waiting for a long time before the strike began.”
But Kaiser Permanente has defended the wages received by mental health workers and claimed that the union is asking for a demand that would actually lead to more time of patients. The company issued a statement amid Los Angeles’s protest on Friday.
“Today’s gathering is an inconvenience for patients trying to obtain care in our hospital. But Nuhw does not draw the attention of our patients. The Federation continues to claim higher wages in exchange for lower care,” says the statement from Kaiser Permanente.
Kaiser said that the union requested that the salaries be raised “much higher than what their peers make in the Southern California market” and called on the proposed changes to payment and others.