A KAISER PERMANENTE UNION representing tens of thousands of California health care workers said its members will strike if the two sides can’t reach a contract agreement by the end of the month.

Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West officials said Thursday that 98 percent of their 58,000 Kaiser workers in California voted to approve the strike. 

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.