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Thousands of Los Angeles healthcare workers demonstrate this Monday on Labor Day (Labor Day).
It is expected that more than 4,000 workers attend the concentration that is contemplated from 9:00 am at Los Feliz Elementary School and continue to march along with employees from other unions to the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles for a rally around 11:00 am
will protest about problems affecting the health sector, such as long patient waiting times, misdiagnoses, neglect, and chronic understaffing in patient caresaid SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West press secretary Renee Saldana.
The Kaiser Permanente Coalition of Labor is in talks to negotiate a new contract with the health care organizationwhose current contract expires on September 30.
“We hired more than 29,000 new employees in 2022 and are on track to substantially exceed that number in 2023, despite the pandemic-driven labor shortages taking place across the healthcare industry,” he said. Kaiser Permanente in a statement released Friday in connection with the contract talks.
“We believe this is because talented people recognize the value of our current salary and benefit offerings and want to work at Kaiser Permanente. Approximately 96% of candidates for positions represented by the coalition accept our job offers, well above the industry average,” Kaiser Permanente added in its statement.
This Monday there will also be a celebration in Los Angeles County of the 44th annual Labor Day parade and rally by the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach Labor Coalition, in Wilmington.
The organizers expect a presence of up to 6,000 people in one of the largest parades for Labor Day on the West Coast.
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The parade was scheduled to start at 10:00 am at the intersection of Broad Avenue and E Street, and would go to Banning Park, where a “picnic gathering” would take place around noon.
“I have often said that the middle class built this country and the unions built the middle class.. On Labor Day, we will honor that essential truth and the dedication and dignity of American workers, who drive our nation’s prosperity,” President Joe Biden said in his Labor Day proclamation.
“They have built railroads, highways, and waterways that connect us from coast to coast, shaped the look of America’s cities, and protected our communities and families as first responders.
“Organized labor has fundamentally transformed the way we live and work in this country.from guaranteeing the 8-hour workday and overtime pay, to 0requiring safety practices in the workplace and obtaining better health services, pensions and other benefits for all workers”, added the president of the United States. .
labor day was first held in the United States on September 5, 1882 in New York City.
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to formally recognize Labor Day.while six years later, 31 of the then 44 states had made Labor Day a holiday when Congress passed a bill designating the first Monday in September as a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and its territories.
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