Sep 30, 2021
Kaiser Permanente is thriving financially and would rank #34 on the Fortune 500 list of companies — ahead of Disney, Nike and Lockheed Martin. In 2020, Kaiser Permanente made $2.2 BILLION in operating profit, while frontline workers fought a daily life or death...
Sep 13, 2021
Final national bargaining session ended with no progress We’re ready to fight for our patients and all health care workers After months of stalling by KP negotiators, scheduled national bargaining sessions ended on Friday, September 10th. “Because of management’s...
Sep 10, 2021
As negotiators ground through the fifth day of National Bargaining, Alliance negotiators worked to fix the logjam of unresolved local bargaining issues. Local bargaining, including long-drawn out negotiations for newly-organized workers, have been going poorly due to...
Sep 1, 2021
The first of three days of national bargaining started today with both labor and management accepting the initial recommendations presented by the Patient & Worker Safety and Problem and Dispute Resolution subcommittees. However, the tone quickly changed when the...
Aug 27, 2021
On Wednesday, August 25, Kaiser negotiators finally put a proposal on the bargaining table. In the face of the surge, and the growing shortage of workers in every job category, Kaiser proposed to pay all new hires much lower wages (on a two-tier wage scale) and pay...