Nearly 4,000 mental health workers at Kaiser have authorized a strike that will begin in June if a new contract is not finalized. The strike that has been authorized is “open-ended” meaning that it has no set end date. Union members have stated that they do not wish to go on strike, but feel that it has become necessary. Management believes that this strike is a tactic that the union is using to encourage management to meet their financial demands.
See "4,000 Kaiser mental health therapists give union OK to call indefinite strike Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article230500459.html#storylink=cpy", Cathie Anderson, The Sacramento Bee, May 17, 2019