More than 30,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care professionals across California and Hawaii have been picketing for nearly a week. They are asking for solutions to unsafe staffing and wage inequalities.

But after five days, the picketing and striking will come to an end on Sunday morning.

Physician Assistant Arezou Mansourian is hoping it's enough to move negotiations forward.

"Kaiser was asking us to do more and more with less and less," said Mansourian.

That's why Mansourian was part of the organizing committee to unionize.

Many Kaiser employees unionized years ago, but the PAs, nurse anesthetists and midwives are some examples of groups that were not union. In July of 2023, they joined the United Health Care Professionals, and for nearly two years, they've been bargaining.

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