The mediation date the thread had been missing: August 11

What happened

NUHW confirms mediation with Kaiser starts August 11 — resolving the "no firm date yet" gap this timeline has carried since 07-23 (Kaiser's own labor-relations page had only said NUHW wasn't available until August, with no date attached). NUHW frames the deadlock around three demands: AI-replacement language ("Kaiser wants to be able to replace therapists with A.I."), layoff/outsourcing provisions, and a "sole discretion" clause over BH clinical operating models. Kaiser's own account of its AI proposal, by contrast, describes only a joint clinician/union/management advisory committee on AI use — the framing gap between the two sides' descriptions of the same proposal is itself part of the dispute. (NUHW, 07-27; Kaiser labor relations)
This is a gap catch, not a new event — the NUHW source is dated 07-27 and slipped past prior passes (last_seen moved to 08-04 without an entry capturing it); logged now because it directly resolves the thread's open "no firm date" watch item.

Sources 2

NUHW, 07-27 home.nuhw.org primary source
Kaiser labor relations about.kaiserpermanente.org primary source

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The wider story

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