SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses are set to start a two-day strike in Northern California as contract negotiations continue.
About 18,000 nurses plan to hit the picket line starting at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
California Nurses Association negotiator Katy Roemer expects the strike set for Tuesday and Wednesday to impact about 21 Kaiser hospitals and 35 clinics.
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Kaiser says its health facilities will remain open during the strike, though some elective procedures and routine appointments may be rescheduled.
The nurses say the strike is to demand Kaiser adopt optimal safeguards for Ebola.
Kaiser says the union is in contact negotiations with the hospitals they are striking. It says the nurses are using Ebola as “a rouse.”
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