Picketing began Wednesday morning at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 health care workers go on strike in five states over wages and staffing shortages, marking the latest major labor unrest in the United States. The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, representing about 85,000 of the health system’s employees nationally, approved a strike for three days in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, and for one day in Virginia and Washington, D.C. Nearly 4,000 workers in Oregon and southwest Washington are among them. Read more at the link in our bio. #kaiser #kaiserpermanente #oregon #washington #strike #theoregonian