Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California and Hawaii plan to strike Tuesday over pay, staffing levels and other contract issues. 

Officials with the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals say 31,000 union members at more than 500 hospitals and clinics will walk off the job until Sunday morning in what they call the largest labor action in the union’s 50-year history. 

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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.