April 22nd, 2014
Open letter to Connie Wilson and Gay Westfall
As clinicians in the Oakland Kaiser Psychiatry Department, we are proud to be standing up for our patients. We are striking to hold Kaiser accountable to provide the quality care it promises in its Thrive marketing campaign, but rarely delivers. We are striking because: • We protest the recently implemented block intake system because it […]
April 22nd, 2014
Statement to Kaiser Permanente Administration and IBHS Professionals
To Kaiser Permanente Administration and IBHS Professionals, Over the last three years many of us have grown familiar with the distorted communications coming out of the office of Kaiser’s senior HR management, their report of the bargaining process related to the labor issues at OAK/RCH is once again predictably simplistic and flawed. To say that “we […]
April 22nd, 2014
Workers in Eureka, Brea vote to join NUHW
Last week, five hundred workers at St. Joseph Eureka (Humboldt County) and Kindred Hospital Brea (Orange County) voted by 2-1 margins to join NUHW. Mail-in ballots for service workers at St. Joseph Eureka were counted Friday, April 18 at the National Labor Relations Board’s San Francisco office. With the support of NUHW members at another […]
April 17th, 2014
CPMC Bargaining Update — April 17, 2014
Management Continues to Delay At bargaining on Monday April 14, management failed yet again to bring an economic proposal to present to our bargaining team. Our bargaining team has presented a complete package of economic and non economic proposals to management months ago and have since been waiting for management. Management’s delays are unacceptable. Delays […]
April 17th, 2014
Kaiser board member Jenny Ming resigns under pressure from NUHW
Another Kaiser board member has resigned under pressure from NUHW. Jenny Ming stepped down April 4 after a series of NUHW actions that called attention to the unsavory business practices of her company, Charlotte Russe, a clothing retailer with more than five hundred outlets nationwide. Ming is the CEO of Charlotte Russe, and formerly served […]