Kaiser Permanente pharmacy, lab employees join Southern California strike

Source: KTLA

by: Will Conybeare Posted: Feb 9, 2026 / 07:51 AM PST Updated: Feb 9, 2026 / 08:05 AM PST

Thousands of workers at Kaiser Permanente pharmacies and laboratories in Southern California began a strike over unfair labor practices in Southern California on Monday.

This strike comes as more than 30,000 other Kaiser employees, namely nurses and healthcare professionals with the UNAC/UHCP union, enter the third week of a strike over similar issues that started on Jan. 26.

In a media statement, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) said that Kaiser pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians, clinical lab scientists and medical lab technicians at dozens of facilities throughout Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, and Kern counties were fed up with “labor violations throughout negotiations that have prevented frontline healthcare workers from getting the fair contract they deserve.”

“Negotiations have been stalled for more than a month after Kaiser management walked away from the bargaining table,” the UFCW media statement reads. “In December, UFCW and other unions with the Alliance of Healthcare Unions filed Unfair Labor Practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging Kaiser unlawfully refused to bargain in an attempt to bypass the agreed-upon national bargaining process and interfere with good-faith negotiations that had been ongoing since April 2025.”


Kaiser Permanente pharmacy, lab employees begin unfair labor strike in Southern California. Feb. 9, 2026. (KTLA)

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