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COALITION PRESS RELEASE ON NATIONAL BARGAINING

OAKLAND, Calif. - Leading Democratic presidential candidates are lining up behind 85,000 employees at Kaiser Permanente who are preparing to launch the country’s largest strike in more than two decades.

U.S. Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke recently tweeted support for Kaiser workers, who will begin voting in late July to authorize an unfair labor practice strike beginning in October 2019. It would be the nation’s largest walkout since UPS workers went on strike in 1997.

COALITION PRESS RELEASE ON NATIONAL BARGAINING

85,000 Kaiser Workers Prepare for the Largest U.S. Strike in More Than Two Decades as Contract Talks Stall

LOS ANGELES – More than 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are making preparations for a national strike to begin this fall as contract talks between the workers and the giant, non-profit healthcare corporation broke off Thursday without an agreement.

The workers are from multiple unions in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii and the District of Columbia. Beginning in late July and continuing into August, union members will be voting to authorize their bargaining team to call the unfair labor practice strike. It would be the largest strike in the U.S. since the 1997 Teamsters strike at UPS.

KP National Bargaining

Telephone Town Hall – Friday, July 12 at 5:30 p.m. Join the conversation!

Hello, this is Marianne Giordano your Executive Director/CFO from OPEIU Local 30 inviting you to a live Telephone Town Hall tomorrow Friday, July 12 at 5:30 p.m. to discuss Kaiser Permanente National Bargaining. We’ll also be taking your questions live. It’s free to participate, just pick up the phone when we call tomorrow around 5:30 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 49304 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!

National Bargaining Update 6/21/19

Kaiser Execs Predict Financial Doom & Gloom

We all know that Kaiser has been making record profits — but they opened this bargaining session complaining “hard times” are ahead for the company.

They then presented their economic proposal that demands major cuts from us, including:

  • Copay increases to $20;
  • More outsourcing and automation of our jobs;
  • Lower pay, elimination of pensions, less time off — starting with new hires, then we’d be next.

National Bargaining Update 5/29/19

WE HIT THE BARGAINING TABLE WITH MOMENTUM

We entered bargaining this week with major momentum with members from every local of the coalition rallying to protect our patients and our families in our next contract.

WHAT KAISER WANTS:

Cuts to Our Jobs, Wages and Benefits. Kaiser wants us to agree to a contract with:

  • The lowest raises in decades.
  • Cuts to our benefits, including doubling our healthcare copays and coming after our retirement benefits.
  • Continued outsourcing and automation of our jobs.
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