HUNDREDS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Kaiser Permanente nurses staged a one-day strike over contract talks and concerns about staffing levels. 

More than 600 nurse midwives and nurse anesthetists from 20 hospitals took to the picket lines Monday at Kaiser facilities in Oakland and Roseville at 7 a.m., according to officials with the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.

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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.