An important update from the Alliance of Health Care Unions:
Despite your dedication to patients and hard work, Kaiser Permanente determined that Alliance Performance Sharing Plan (APSP) payouts for 2025 are lower than expected because, according to KP, it did not meet the financial threshold in many regions.
Kaiser Permanente determined that Southern California and many other regions did not meet the financial gate. As a result, your APSP payout is the lowest across KP this cycle.
UFCW Local 400 and the Alliance of Health Care Unions are challenging KP’s conclusion. We are meticulously reviewing KP’s data and calculations until we have real answers about how that determination was made. And we will file disputes where warranted.
KP has refused to share results but said their calculations of the payout will be available to the Mid-Atlantic region on March 13, 2026.
Under our current contract, if KP doesn’t meet its financial targets, Alliance members are still eligible to receive up to $1,000 if we meet our APSP goals.
All regions except Southern California fully met or exceeded the full Affordability target, which comprises 67% of the APSP. That means all regions outside CA should receive at least $670, with additional amounts specific to goal attainment specific to each region.
You showed up every single day. You delivered care under conditions that would have broken a lesser workforce. You did it through a pandemic, through chronic understaffing, through tough negotiations and strikes — and now KP is telling you that wasn’t enough to meet the financial threshold set by the organization. That is a bitter result, and we do not accept it.
The Alliance has filed and won disputes against KP related to the APSP before, and we are prepared to do that again. We will not rubber-stamp outcomes that shortchange our members.