Kaiser Permanente San Diego Union Contract

For more information, please contact your local or regional union industrial relations department. The preliminary agreement was approved by members of the Economic Subcommittee of the Alliance of Health Unions and will now be submitted to the entire Joint Business Committee (CIC) and then to union members for ratification. The vote on the provisional agreement will take place in the coming weeks. If ratified, the agreement will enter into force on 1 October 2021. Kaiser Permanente and the alliance unions have a long history of successful negotiations to jointly meet the interests of all parties. “This historic agreement positions Kaiser Permanente for a prosperous future focused on delivering quality, affordable and accessible health care to our more than 12 million members and the communities we serve. It also underscores our unwavering commitment to our employees by maintaining top-notch salaries and benefits,” said Christian Meisner, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Kaiser Permanente. “These negotiations have been challenging, but this preliminary agreement demonstrates the strength of our work management partnership and the unique success it can achieve when we work together.” October 1, 2021: Contract Expiry UpdatesHealth Union Alliance DeclarationOur national agreement with KP expired at midnight on October 1. The salaries, benefits and terms and conditions of employment of all Alliance union members are protected by the National Industrial Relations Act, and working without a contract poses no risk to union members.

After lengthy negotiations, Kaiser yesterday rejected a routine 30-day contract extension and tried to silence us by insisting on extreme conditions for an extension. Contract renewals are common issues, and stability and predictability would have benefited the employer. But the extreme negotiating positions of the CP prevented us from reaching a provisional agreement, and now the CP leadership is doubling down on obstruction. Kaiser Permanente`s bargaining strategy is not only outside the norm of the last twenty-four years of our work management partnership – it is an aggressive gesture that is rarely used, even by the worst union fighters. Kaiser Permanente leaders will not turn away from confrontational bargaining tactics, fabricated claims about our wages, and a two-tier wage system that is never accepted by our unions. Make no mistake: this is a model. KP rejected an extension, just as they refused to deviate from their two-stage offensive proposal, which does nothing about chronic staff shortages and burnout. Our predecessors fought for a Kaiser Permanente with the best jobs and the best care. We are more committed than ever to honouring this legacy. We will not give in.

Now more than ever, we need to make our voices heard and unite. The employer will try to divide us because KP knows that 52,000 alliance members working together are unstoppable. Kaiser`s last attempt to silence us failed, but it was a clear signal of weakness and fear. Every time we post on social media, wear the colors of our union, and stay visible, we show this employer that we will do whatever it takes for our patients and our professions. With unity and determination, and the growing support of our patients and elected leaders, we will win a contract that protects our patients, provides a safe staff, and guarantees fair salaries and benefits for every member of the Alliance, no matter how long it takes. Join us on Thursday the 28th. October to hear the latest update on National Bargaining and the next steps in our national collective bargaining campaign. In this way, we have reached a new interim agreement with joint annual salary increases, no two-stage improvements in staffing, racial justice language to correct different salaries, approximation of national standards in regions where they lag behind, increased funding for our education and partnership funds, and fair contracts for workers who have recently joined the union. The agreement in principle rejects the two-stage proposal and guarantees flat-rate wage increases each year until 2025 for about 50,000 unionized workers in the alliance, according to the joint statement. Members will also not see reduced benefits and the same co-payments for prescriptions and office visits. On Saturday, a tentative agreement was reached between Kaiser Permanente and union leaders that will prevent a strike by thousands of nurses and other health care workers who planned to hit the picket line at Kaiser`s facilities in Southern California and beyond on Monday.

Staffing is the problem, and executives know that compensation is part of the solution: even without a two-tier system that further undermines KP`s ability to compete for talent, positions across the company remain vacant – sometimes despite generous recruitment bonuses and requests for exemptions from existing union pay scales. .