Up to 31,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii went on indefinite strike on Monday in the latest work stoppage at the United States nation’s largest medical provider. The union that represents the striking Kaiser workers, called United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals and known as UNAC/UHCP, said it called a new strike because contract talks had stalled. They need to return to the table, that’s the biggest thing.’The coalition, called the Alliance of Health Care Unions, counts some 62,000 Kaiser workers 23 local unions among its members. ‘Federal workers have been placed at the centre of this political theatre, turned into symbols instead of being treated as the public servants they are. The HHS case takes a different approach, seeking pecuniary relief for errors during the department’s hasty efforts.