OPEIU Local 30 Members: Let’s take a stand for our patients and our families! Vote YES to authorize an unfair labor practice strike.

LOS ANGELES – In a move that’s raising eyebrows from workers and patients across the country, healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente is one of only a handful of the nation’s nearly 200- largest corporations that refused to sign an Aug. 19 “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,” calling on companies to shift from making shareholders their main focus to including all of their stakeholders, including employees and the community.

In a Politico article, Kaiser Permanente said it didn’t sign the Business Roundtable pledge because it is a non-profit and doesn’t have shareholders, even though the statement focuses on broadening to all stakeholders. Two corporations without shareholders – Guardian Life and New York Life – did sign the statement.

Save the Date: September 16-20. Locations and Times will be announced soon. Thank you!

Hello, this is Marianne Giordano your Executive Director/CFO from OPEIU Local 30 inviting you to a live Telephone Town Hall tomorrow Thursday, August 8 at 5 p.m. to discuss Strike Readiness. We’ll also be taking your questions live. It’s free to participate, just pick up the phone when we call tomorrow around 5 p.m.

The call will go out to the members who have signed up for mobile alerts. If you have not signed up yet, you can still join in by calling (855) 756-7520 extension 49920 pound. That number can be used to rejoin the call if for any reason your call gets dropped.

If you have questions about how to join tomorrow’s call, you can contact the Local 30 office at 619-640-4840. Thanks!

Local 30 Members,
Recently you have seen a number of messages from management in Southern California saying they have made offers to settle our contract dispute. They mention three percent wage increases and a four-year contract, only minor increases to your healthcare co-pays, and even continuation of the PSP bonus and some other smaller things, things that we already have. 

While there is some truth to these claims it is more about what they are not saying that should concern us. These things come at a cost and the Coalition Unions are not willing to pay that cost.

We have been clear with Kaiser that we need to rebuild our Partnership and that starts with treating each other fairly and honestly. In a partnership of any kind the parties must be equals. Our Coalition has since the start of these negotiations been very clear that wage increases must be fair to all Coalition Union members. The wages in some of the Regions Outside California (the so-called ROC’s) are already lower than those in California and to continue to have them receive lower increases than us only sets them further behind and makes a bad situation worse.