2000 therapists are on strike to force Kaiser to provide more mental health care for their patients. Here some of them are doing a "die-in" while blocking the entrance to Kaiser's Corporate Headquarters in Oakland. Currently, patients wait almost 2 months for mental health therapy because despite the $8.1 billion yearly profit, the HMO has refused to hire enough therapists to handle the workload. During this wait, you can imagine the various crises that happen due to this- from despair and anxiety, to small episodes, to suicide. Black & Brown communities have been hit hardest by the strategic under-resourcing of mental health services nationwide. The mental health workers are demanding that Kaiser hire more therapists so that more patients can be seen, more often, and have longer sessions. This is an example of how withholding labor can affect policy to help the whole community. The collective power of the labor movement is important. It's the mechanism that forces change under capitalism. These are a bunch of people who care about their patients and are using their power to force Kaiser's hand to help those patients more. This is a radical action. Bravo! Kaiser is breaking the law by under funding their mental health care. That fact hasn't changed Kaiser's policy. Withholding labor and causing profit loss gets the goods. This is part of a new strike wave that is bigger than the US has seen since the 1940s. Thousands of strikes and work actions. This is a moment we're having that can be turned into much more in order to build a movement that could fight for a world in which the people democratically control the wealth and resources we create with our labor. @nuhwunion @KPThrive