May 17th, 2012
We won at Children’s Hospital Oakland
Yesterday we won a great victory at Children’s Hospital Oakland. I am so proud to report that we won our re-run election over SEIU by a margin of 183 votes for NUHW to 135 votes for SEIU. SEIU’s organizers had told NUHW supporters that they were going to “make us cry” at the ballot count. […]
May 17th, 2012
NUHW forces SEIU to reveal their secret deal at Kaiser
Yesterday, NUHW forced SEIU to reveal their secret deal with Kaiser. SEIU wanted to prevent workers from seeing the details of their agreement with Kaiser Permanente before healthcare workers were forced to vote on it. SEIU tried to do what they’ve done to workers at Daughters of Charity and Dignity/Catholic Healthcare West and get workers […]
May 16th, 2012
SEIU’s bogus ratification votes
Tomorrow, Kaiser workers will begin to vote on SEIU’s disastrous deal with its “partner,” Kaiser Permanente. When Kaiser workers cast their ballots to vote NO to this sell-out agreement, they should know one thing: SEIU’s contract ratification process is a sham. At Daughters of Charity hospitals, we know firsthand about SEIU’s ratification misconduct. Yesterday, along […]
May 16th, 2012
The takeaways that SEIU didn’t want you to see
When SEIU announced its “great contract” with Kaiser Permanente, one thing was clearly missing: the actual tentative agreements. Only by reviewing the agreement between SEIU and Kaiser can workers make up our own minds about the takeaways that SEIU have agreed to. NUHW has obtained a copy of the tentative agreements and we’re sharing them […]
May 15th, 2012
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: Kaiser Permanente, union announce labor contract
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
05/14/2012 11:17:14 AM PDT
Kaiser Permanente and a coalition of unions have reached a tentative three-year labor agreement including a companywide Total Health program to reduce the health care provider’s own medical costs.
The announced deal would affect nearly 10,000 Kaiser employees in the Inland Empire.
“It’s a great settlement, and our people are really excited about it,” said Steve Trossman, a spokesman for Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare West.
The deal calls for a 3 percent pay increase for Kaiser’s California employees and maintains those workers’ health care coverage and pensions, according to announcements from Kaiser Permanente and SEIU-UHW.
The agreement, reached at 3 a.m. Friday, also contains a framework for an employee Total Health program in which Kaiser Permanente would likely provide incentives for employees to lose weight, quit smoking or otherwise improve their physical conditions.
SEIU-UHW President David Regan said in a statement that reducing and preventing employees’ chronic health care problems is necessary to curb otherwise unsustainable health care costs.
“Over time, and as a group, that should also reduce the cost of providing medical costs to ourselves as members,” Kaiser Permanente spokesman John Nelson said.