The coalition of unions representing Kaiser Permanente health care workers announced Friday morning that it reached a tentative agreement with the company.

The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions announced they had tentatively reached an agreement via a social media post on Friday.

"The frontline healthcare workers of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are excited to have reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente as of this morning," the group wrote on Facebook.

After a historic strike, healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions announced Friday that they reached a tentative 4-year union contract agreement in the early hours of this morning.

The deal gives frontline healthcare workers the resources to do the job they love and keep patients safe, said Yvonne Esquivel, a pediatric medical assistant at Kaiser Permanente in Gilroy, California, in a statement issued by the coalition.

United Auto Workers expanded its ongoing strikes against major automobile manufacturers Wednesday after a Ford truck plant in Kentucky joined the strike, the union announced.

About 8,700 workers from the company’s Truck Assembly Plant in Louisville, Kentucky — where F-250 and F-550 trucks are built as well as some SUVs — walked off the job in a surprise strike Wednesday. The facility is Ford’s largest and most profitable.

The union said that Ford has refused to negotiate further bargaining demands, resulting in the expanded strike.

It seems like everyone is hitting the picket lines these days. And this past week, for the first time ever, that included a sitting president of the United States.

President Joe Biden’s unprecedented visit to the United Auto Workers picket line on Tuesday only brought more attention to the already high-profile strike by the UAW against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. The picketer-in-chief urged on the strikers in the push for better contracts.

The auto workers’ strike is the latest in a series of labor-management conflicts that economists say could start having significant growth impacts if they persist.

So far, the United Auto Workers stoppage has impacted just a small portion of the workforce with limited implications for the broader economy.

But it is part of a pattern in labor-management conflicts that has resulted in the most missed hours of work in some 23 years, according to Labor Department statistics.

Americans expressed overwhelming support for the United Auto Workers’ “Stand Up Strike” against Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers, according to a new poll by Extreme Terrain.

The company surveyed over 1,000 American car owners, finding that 33% owned a vehicle from one of the brands involved in the strike.

Nearly 4 in 5 Americans said they supported the union’s strike objectives, and 90% of respondents believe this strike will likely lead to similar labor movements in the near future, the report said.

Members of the Writers Guild of America union ratified a new contract with Hollywood and television studios, the WGA said in a statement released Monday.

Of the 8,525 valid votes cast, 99% of WGA members voted to ratify the new contract, which will last from September 25, 2023, through May 1, 2026, the release said.

The relationship between the workforce that treats America’s patients and the health systems that employ them is fraying, and the more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers on strike this week are just the latest example.

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees walked off the job on Wednesday in what their union representatives say is the largest strike of health care workers in U.S. history.

A coalition of labor unions representing the workers notified the company last month that it planned to carry out a three-day strike starting Wednesday at 6:00 a.m. PT if a new contract was not reached in time. The previous contract expired Saturday.