Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Omnenevaz on the news hour tonight. Tens of

thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees walk off the job to protest staffing shortages,

low wages, and burnout in the largest health care strike in U.S. history.

The Republican Party faces no clear choice for a new leader after House Speaker Kevin

McCarthy was ousted. And the U.S. warned that Guatemala's government is interfering with

the peaceful transfer of power following democratic elections. We speak with the country's

president-elect. Even though the corrupt functioners in the General Attorney's Office are going

to continue attempting any way to derail the process and deny the people the electoral result,

it's not going to work.

Welcome to the news hour. The largest health care strike in U.S. history is underway.

After the non-profit health care giant Kaiser Permanente and its unionized workers

failed to reach a new contract agreement. More than 75,000 health care workers

walked off the job today at Kaiser facilities in five states and Washington DC.

So what's happening is Kaiser has not been bargaining with us in good faith.

And so it's pushing us to come out here and strike. We don't want to. We want to just be inside

taking care of our patients, but unfortunately, Kaiser's not bargaining in good faith.

The strike is said to last three days as contract negotiations continue,

focusing on wage increases and solutions to staffing shortages. Caroline Lucas is the executive

director of the coalition of Kaiser Permanente unions. And she joins us now to talk more about this.

Thank you for being with us. Health care workers taking to the picket lines. They're

fighting for better pay, better benefits that's certainly true in California, which has a high

cost of living. It's also where most of the 75,000 striking Kaiser Permanente workers have walked

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