The walkout — which is slated to end by 7 a.m. Sunday — involves about 4,000 employees who work at Kaiser’s Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro and dozens of clinics and surgical centers stretching along the Interstate 5 corridor from Longview, Washington, to Eugene.

Kaiser Permanente nurses and healthcare professionals have begun a five-day strike in Oregon and Southwest Washington, with the impacted hospitals remaining open through the end of the strike on Sunday,

Thousands of unionized workers are participating in the walkout across 500 locations in California, Hawaii, and Oregon, demanding better wages and prioritization from their employer.

The roughly 6,000 health care professionals of the OFNHP are locked in a contract fight with their employer, Kaiser Permanente, the sprawling health care consortium. The mediocrity in question is not that of the staffers themselves;