The State - News from Nov. 25, 1986
Unions on strike against Kaiser Permanente medical centers in Northern California asked other unions around the country to drop the Kaiser Health Plan. Union spokeswoman Maureen Anderson said 270 unions in Northern California already have notified Kaiser of their willingness to urge members to drop Kaiser coverage during open enrollment periods and switch to another health plan because of the strike. But Kaiser spokesman Dan Danzig said he doubted the union’s strategy would be effective. It would, he said “be like shooting yourself in the foot.” Locals 250 and 505 of the Service Employees International Union and the Engineers and Scientists of California went on strike Oct. 27 at 26 Kaiser facilities, which treat an estimated 2 million health plan enrollees in Northern California.
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