HPC 2021 contract bargaining platform
Dear HPC members:
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Based on the bargaining survey completed by over 60% of our members, the Healthcare Professional Chapter Bargaining Committee has set the following goals as top priorities for negotiations with Kaiser this year:
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Improved staffing and patient care
- Establish enforceable mechanism to ensure staffing levels are adequate to provide clinically appropriate care to patients
Improved working conditions
- Enforceable mechanism to ensure staffing levels are adequate to provide clinically appropriate care to patients
- Ensure clinically appropriate office and classroom space
- Opportunity to work from home on a regular basis
- Adequate time for charting, indirect patient care and administrative duties
- Establish clear boundaries and restrictions on who can perform bargaining unit job duties
- Emphasis on cultural diversity in recruitment and retention of employees
Workplace decision making
- Expand labor participation in decision making processes that affect working conditions and/or patient care
- Recognition and respect for our professions
Fair wages
- Fair incentive plan with metrics and goals jointly set by Labor and Management
- Fair and reasonable wage increase
- Career ladder opportunities for all classifications
- Add more longevity steps to the wage scale
- Increase bilingual differential
Maintain and improve benefits
- Increase employer contribution to defined contribution plan for those without pension
- Improve health, dental and vision benefits; reduce co-pays
- Add MLK day as a holiday
- Establish a student loan reimbursement program