Kaiser Permanente workers voting on whether or not to strike say patients are on their side

• 85,000 Kaiser Permanente employees are voting on whether to authorize a strike.
• A strike could interrupt hospital and outpatient services for millions across the country.
• Yet short-staffing is already putting patients' lives at risk, union organizers and a patient say.

Voting is underway among 85,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers on whether or not to authorize what would be the largest healthcare strike in US history.