The strike, which runs May 6-8, follows numerous complaints to the National Labor Relations Board in recent weeks about Inter-Con’s repeated use of heavy-handed tactics to prevent officers from forming a union. The complaints cited Inter-Con’s use of spying, threats, intimidation and retaliation against officers.

“It’s clear that Inter-Con has repeatedly committed unfair labor practices in violation of the law,” said Orrin Baird, Associate General Counsel for SEIU. “That’s the whole basis of this strike—workers’ civil rights have been violated.”

Dozens of security officers gathered outside the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center and the Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center early Tuesday morning to launch the strike, with dozens more officers conducting similar three-day walk-outs at 15 Kaiser medical facilities throughout Northern and Central California from Modesto to Santa Rosa.

Hundreds of security officers in Southern California will join the strike for one day on Thursday, May 8, with protests scheduled at nine Kaiser medical facilities in Los Angeles, San Fernando and Anaheim.

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