Nearly 3,400 workers from Kaiser Permanente in Oregon and Southwest Washington formally announced that they will be walking out on strike due to the harmful proposals put forward by Kaiser leadership during union contract negotiations. This announcement means that the union, the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP, AFT Local 5017) will be putting in a ten day notice with Kaiser, and unless negotiations improve, workers will strike at 6:00 a.m. on November 15th. They will be joined by a total of 32,000 other Kaiser workers striking around the same date, and an additional