Nearly 200 Kaiser mental health clinicians went on strike in Oakland to demand better care for communities of color, representatives of the National Union of Healthcare Workers said.

Psychologists, social workers, addiction counselors and marriage and family therapists from Oakland and Richmond picketed Monday morning outside Kaiser’s Oakland hospital at 3600 Broadway.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.