https://znetwork.org/author/cal/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 05 May 2026 22:47:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/cal/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-british-general-strike-one-hundred-years-on/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-british-general-strike-one-hundred-years-on/#respond Tue, 05 May 2026 17:50:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297749 The General Strike was “the greatest effort the British workers had ever made,” wrote the historian and economist G.D.H. Cole. One hundred years ago on May 4, 1926 a million British workers walked off their jobs. These workers struck in sympathy with miners – the more than a million miners who had been locked out [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-british-general-strike-one-hundred-years-on/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-permanente-ai-and-the-workers-on-strike-again/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-permanente-ai-and-the-workers-on-strike-again/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:25:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295898 “Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients require urgent appointments and assess whether they may be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Staehle, a behavioral therapist in San Francisco. “Whatever Kaiser wants to call [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-permanente-ai-and-the-workers-on-strike-again/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-get-rid-of-them/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-get-rid-of-them/#respond Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289011 The deportation crusade began in Seattle late in 1917. The country was at war, an unpopular war, and there was an unsettled timber strike in the woods of western Washington. The city was awash with migrant workers – most of them loggers, sheltering from the winter rains. The war time strike wave continued unabated; from [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/just-get-rid-of-them/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mental-healthcare-workers-win/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mental-healthcare-workers-win/#respond Fri, 30 May 2025 17:08:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284401 “These negotiations were like fighting a battle,” says Adrianna Webb, a medical social worker at Panorama City in Los Angeles and a member of the National Union of Healthcare Workers’ (NUHW) bargaining committee.  `The 196-day strike of the mental healthcare workers is over, for now. The strikers, 2400 therapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and psychologists, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mental-healthcare-workers-win/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser/#respond Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279838 2400 striking behavioral health care workers in Southern California have taken to the streets – literally. On February 8, workers sat down in the middle of Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, blocking traffic in front of Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center.  The strikers, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), blocked traffic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser-permanente/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser-permanente/#respond Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:01:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277403 The behavioral healthcare workers in Kaiser Permanente’s vast empire of hospitals, clinics medical offices, and homecare settings are on strike today in the third month of walking picket lines in Southern California from San Diego to Bakersfield. These workers, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), include psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, addiction [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser-permanente/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seattle-1934-soviet-on-the-docks/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seattle-1934-soviet-on-the-docks/#respond Wed, 08 May 2024 16:26:01 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266052 Rise like Lions after slumber– In unvanquishable number– Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you– Ye are many — they are few.’ -Percy Bysshe Shelley   On the morning of May 9, 1934, a rejuvenated International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) struck shippers in the West Coast Ports, shutting down [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seattle-1934-soviet-on-the-docks/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fort-braggs-coastal-headlands-its-not-too-late/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fort-braggs-coastal-headlands-its-not-too-late/#respond Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:17:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261975 The Fort Bragg, California coastal headlands comprise 425 acres of the much- celebrated Mendocino Coast. If you walk the town’s coastal trail and look out to the ocean, you will see rocks and secluded coves, steep cliffs and flowery headlands, as well as whales, sea lions and pelicans galore, a place as spectacular as almost [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fort-braggs-coastal-headlands-its-not-too-late/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-amazon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-amazon/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:44:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248616 It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden, a garden that carpets a remaining grove of the world’s tallest trees here in northern California. The flowers of spring – the trillium and the wild Iris are gone but native rhododendron are in blossom. Alas, there are few such groves remaining – the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-amazon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-day-off-with-pay-and-much-more/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-day-off-with-pay-and-much-more/#respond Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:18:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1240025 Sabrina Chaumette is an Oakland, CA resident and a licensedclinical social worker and a member of the National Union ofHealthcare Workers (NUHW) at Kaiser Permanente’s OaklandMedical Center. The past half dozen years has been the scene of a warbetween the California HMO behemoth and its clinical health careworkers. There have been strikes and threats of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-day-off-with-pay-and-much-more/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/longest-strike-ends-california-mental-health-care-workers-win-big/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/longest-strike-ends-california-mental-health-care-workers-win-big/#respond Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1223508 Two thousand mental health clinicians have won; Kaiser Permanente has lost. The 10- week strike has ended in near total victory for the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). The therapists, walked out on August 15; it became the longest mental health care workers’ strike recorded. Two issues dominated negotiations from the start: workload for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/longest-strike-ends-california-mental-health-care-workers-win-big/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser-continues/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser-continues/#respond Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:04:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1221765 Voices from the Picket Lines The strike of 2000 Kaiser Permanente mental health care providers isnow in its seventh week. On Saturday, votes were counted; the tally wasoverwhelming, 1349 to 222 to continue the strike.Why? Here’s Jane Kostka, a steward with the National Union ofHealthcare Workers (NUHW):“We’re out here on the picket line today because [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-strike-at-kaiser-continues/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-august-mental-healthcare-workers-strike-in-northern-california/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-august-mental-healthcare-workers-strike-in-northern-california/#respond Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:00:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1199447 Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike. Picketing began early Monday morning in Fresno, Sacramento and San Jose – temperatures there were predicted to reach triple digits by the afternoon. There are also pickets in San Francisco. The union explained why: [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-august-mental-healthcare-workers-strike-in-northern-california/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-permanente-in-covid-time-health-care-and-our-heroes/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-permanente-in-covid-time-health-care-and-our-heroes/#respond Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:04:33 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1052888 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kaiser-permanente-in-covid-time-health-care-and-our-heroes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-redwood-coast-dispatches-from-a-forest-in-distress/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-redwood-coast-dispatches-from-a-forest-in-distress/#respond Sat, 04 Dec 2021 09:01:38 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1052441 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-redwood-coast-dispatches-from-a-forest-in-distress/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stopping-the-loggers-on-californias-north-coast/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stopping-the-loggers-on-californias-north-coast/#respond Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:02:10 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1047830 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stopping-the-loggers-on-californias-north-coast/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-1970s-decade-of-the-rank-and-file/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-1970s-decade-of-the-rank-and-file/#respond Sun, 24 Jan 2021 09:02:27 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1042563 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-1970s-decade-of-the-rank-and-file/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/californias-health-care-crisis/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:41:37 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=1038476 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/californias-health-care-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/californias-health-care-crisis/#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2020 09:04:28 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1036917 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/californias-health-care-crisis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-the-era-nineteen-nineteen/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-the-era-nineteen-nineteen/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:03:50 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1026379 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-the-era-nineteen-nineteen/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-brief-history-of-harlan-county-usa/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-brief-history-of-harlan-county-usa/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:02:18 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1022961 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-brief-history-of-harlan-county-usa/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuhw-ten-years-on-a-tribute/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuhw-ten-years-on-a-tribute/#respond Wed, 01 May 2019 09:03:00 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1019571 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nuhw-ten-years-on-a-tribute/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/labors-spectacular-revolt/ Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:00:31 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=1018716 On February 6, 1919, Seattle’s workers struck—all of them. In doing so they took control of the city]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labors-most-spectacular-revolt/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labors-most-spectacular-revolt/#respond Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:02:07 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1017299 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labors-most-spectacular-revolt/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trouble-in-napa/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trouble-in-napa/#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:04:02 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1002134 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trouble-in-napa/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zcommentary/healthcare-workers-proclaim-sanctuary-union-push-for-medicare-for-all-in-california-2/ https://znetwork.org/zcommentary/healthcare-workers-proclaim-sanctuary-union-push-for-medicare-for-all-in-california-2/#respond Thu, 02 Mar 2017 09:04:43 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=commentary&p=995628 https://znetwork.org/zcommentary/healthcare-workers-proclaim-sanctuary-union-push-for-medicare-for-all-in-california-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-and-death-in-health-cares-trenches/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-and-death-in-health-cares-trenches/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2016 09:04:03 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=990888 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/life-and-death-in-health-cares-trenches/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seiu-heavy-on-the-topes-troublemakers-gather-in-chicago/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seiu-heavy-on-the-topes-troublemakers-gather-in-chicago/#respond Thu, 31 Mar 2016 09:02:32 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=985140 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/seiu-heavy-on-the-topes-troublemakers-gather-in-chicago/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/when-workers-fight/ Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:38:39 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=zmagarticle&p=981639 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-workers-fight/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-workers-fight/#respond Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:03:09 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=980552 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-workers-fight/feed/ 0