Kaiser Permanente and 85,000 workers reach tentative labor agreement

After months of failed negotiations, Kaiser Permanente and a coalition of unions representing 85,000 workers have announced a tentative agreement that could avert an unfair labor practices strike set to begin Oct. 14.
The announcement, made Wednesday, Sept. 25, came as a relief to Georgette Bradford, an ultrasound technologist at Kaiser in Sacramento.
“Reaching an agreement was not easy, it had lots of twists and turns, but in the end we accomplished what we set out to do – reach an