November 28th, 2012
A contract victory for NUHW at Hazel Hawkins
In June, 175 of us at Hazel Hawkins voted to join NUHW. Now we are celebrating bargaining a great three-year NUHW contract at our hospital. Our settlement, which we are scheduled to ratify on December 4th, contains these important highlights: 13.5% in wage increases over 3 years (retroactive to July, 2012) re-instituting full step increases […]
November 27th, 2012
Hiding layoffs? It’s NOT okay.
SEIU and Kaiser have known about planned layoffs affecting more than 1,000 healthcare workers for months. They just didn’t tell us about it. The head of UNAC, a nurses’s union in Southern California and part of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions hinted at Kaiser’s plans in a letter to UNAC members: “Kaiser approached […]
November 20th, 2012
Our future at Kaiser under SEIU
Salary Reduction, Pension / Benefits Freeze, Firing Staff This picture was taken last week by a worker who walked into a conference room during a break in a meeting of Kaiser executives. This picture is unaltered, and it’s chilling. This is our future under SEIU and the Kaiser Coalition of Unions. Even though Kaiser has […]
November 17th, 2012
Workers at George Mee Hospital vote to join NUHW
We have good news for healthcare workers this morning! Last night, by a vote of 129 for NUHW to 126 for “No Union,” nearly 300 of us at George Mee Hospital in King City, California voted to organize our union with the National Union of Healthcare Workers. That vote result, combined with 4 challenged ballots, […]
November 14th, 2012
Ka-Ching! $8.2 billion in profits for Kaiser
It’s PayDay for Kaiser…and thanks to SEIU, every day is Tax Day for Kaiser workers Kaiser just released its third quarter profits, and they’re massive. Since Jan 1, 2009, Kaiser has made $8.2 billion in profits. To date, 2012 is Kaiser’s most profitable year over the last half decade. At the same time, Kaiser management […]