Month: September 2022

Kaiser Permanente’s mental health therapists are entering the fifth week of a strike after contract negotiations on Monday with management failed to break an impasse. While Kaiser declined to discuss negotiations, the union says starting salaries and benefits for new hires are at the center of bargaining.

The approximately 60 clinicians, including psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and chemical dependency counselors have been on strike since Aug. 29. For months they have argued that severe understaffing at Kaiser’s health clinics has led to overwhelming caseloads and that Kaiser needs to make compensation more attractive in order to attract new hires.

The union says that instead, Kaiser is doing the opposite, proposing lower starting salaries and slashing retirement benefits for new hires. Currently, employees receive pensions and contributions to individual retirement accounts. Kaiser is proposing to eliminate these benefits for new hires

KIM Kardashian has been ripped by fans for “fake” behavior after she appeared in a new video for her collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana.

The Kardashians star has been teasing her work with the brand, showing off her slim figure in pieces designed for her.

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Ahead of her Milan Fashion Week show with Dolce & Gabbana, Kim, 42, shared an ad she created with the brand on Instagram.

In it, she appeared to be licking an ice cream cone while paparazzi took her photo.

Fans, however, weren’t impressed and accused of her of fake eating after shedding more than 20 lbs. since 2021.

The clip was shared on Redditwhere the Kardashian critics weighed in.

“Irony of her losing