June 21st, 2019
Kaiser chooses gleaming new office tower over mental health care
By Clement Papazian and Miranda Buxton This op-ed was originally published on Medium. As Kaiser Permanente caregivers, we have ideas about how Kaiser can better serve our patients — and a $900 million new office tower certainly is not on our list. News reports about the planned 29-story building dwelled on its size and future tax […]
June 20th, 2019
Know Your Weingarten Rights
In 1975, the United States Supreme Court in the case of NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. 420 U.S. 251 (1975) upheld a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that employees have a right to union representation at investigatory interviews. These rights have become known as Weingarten Rights. During an investigatory interview, the Supreme Court ruled […]
June 20th, 2019
The Seven Tests of Just Cause
Just cause is a common standard in labor law arbitration that is used in labor union contracts as a form of job security. The seven tests are as follows: Was the employee forewarned of the consequences of his or her actions? Are the employer’s rules reasonably related to business efficiency and performance the employer might […]
June 18th, 2019
Kaiser contract vote information
NUHW-represented Kaiser workers are voting on Kaiser’s “best” offer. The elected bargaining committees for each of the three units — IBHS, Psych-Social, and Healthcare Professionals — believe that Kaiser’s proposals do not go nearly far enough to address our core demands: Achieving parity in wages and benefits with other Kaiser employees; meaningfully addressing staffing, access, […]
June 9th, 2019
Kaiser mental health clinicians call off open-ended strike amid recent progress in negotiations
Statewide strike of 4,000 Kaiser psychologists, social workers, therapists and other health care professionals had been scheduled to start Tuesday Following progress at the bargaining table in recent weeks, the member-led bargaining teams representing 4,000 Kaiser mental health clinicians and healthcare professionals throughout California voted unanimously Sunday to call off an open-ended strike scheduled to […]