We did it! After the largest healthcare worker strike in US history, we secured a landmark agreement that provides a framework for long-term solutions to the short-staffing crisis. This victory was delivered by the sheer grit, unwavering dedication, and unbreakable spirit of our Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Union members. We’ve made history!
The 4-year contract covering 85,000 represented healthcare workers is in effect from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2027.
Raises, PSP, and Bonuses Pay Out Dates:
The Coalition unions have been pushing Kaiser to implement our 6% raises and retro pay as soon as possible. Kaiser’s HR Connect software has to be manually programmed for the raises.
Kaiser is telling us the 6% raises and retro pay will be coming on Jan 26, 2024 for Colorado. The retroactive payments to the first pay period after Oct 1, 2023 will also be on those checks.
We were able to push up the date that Kaiser pays the $1500 ratification bonus to Dec 15, 2023 for Colorado. The ratification bonus is for all represented employees who were in a Coalition job on November 9, 2023: full-time, part-time, on-call or per diem. It is not prorated.
The other key month will be March of 2024, when the shift differential increases go into effect, and when the PSP bonus with a minimum payment of $1500 (prorated for less than 1800 hours in 2023) will be paid.
If you have any questions please reach out to your steward, organizers, or email healthcare@seiu105.org.
UPDATE 20 – 10/23/2023
The results are in, and an overwhelming 99% of SEIU Local 105 KP members voted YES to ratify our historic tentative agreement!
The work every 105 KP member has put in over the past year to get to this moment is a testament to the unity, strength, and dedication of our union.
Together, we put in the sacrifice to achieve a contract that will help us recruit and retain the healthcare staff we need to deliver the best quality care for patients in our community.
What’s next? Our national tentative agreement will not go into effect until all of our Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions have voted to ratify our historic contract.
Please stay tuned for further updates as we receive them from our coalition partners!
See the summary of our Tentative Agreement below for more info on our hard-fought wins!
Please contact healthcare@seiu105.org if you have any questions.
UPDATE 19 – 10/16/2023
Congratulations! We’ve made history for healthcare workers across the country. After our record-breaking strike and bargaining through the night and into the early hours last Friday, your bargaining team reached a TENTATIVE AGREEMENT with Kaiser Permanente that includes a historic 21% raise over the next 4 years, an improved PSP, extended outsourcing protections, and much more.
From the front page of The Denver Post to national news coverage all weekend long, our victory in Colorado and across our regions has shown that when we stand united and fight for what’s right, WE WIN!
Now it’s time to lock in these historic victories by voting YES to RATIFY our tentative agreement!
Ratification votes in Colorado will start this Wednesday, October 18th, and run through this Saturday, October 21st. We have voting locations set up across the state.
Click the link below for the dates, locations, and times. NOTE: Room numbers for these ratification vote locations will be added and updated in the next 24 hours.
UPDATE 18 – 10/12/2023 – TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED!
After showing Kaiser our unified strength last week during the largest healthcare workers strike in US history, your bargaining team has reached a TENTATIVE AGREEMENT with Kaiser Permanente that includes a historic 21% raise over the next 4 years, an improved PSP, extended outsourcing protections, and much more. That’s right, because we stood together and fought, we WON BIG on our critical contract issues!
These past few months of bargaining have been an intense fight, and the historic agreement we’ve reached is a testament to the unwavering strength of our membership and the power of our union. Together, we have achieved a milestone that will positively impact the lives of healthcare workers across Colorado for years to come.
See below for a breakdown of what we won together:
This historic agreement needs to be ratified by a membership vote and your SEIU Local 105 KP National Bargaining Team is recommending an immediate YES vote. Details on voting times and locations will follow soon so stay tuned!
A HUGE congratulations to each and every one of you for the incredible achievement we’ve made together through the POWER of our union. Let’s celebrate this incredible victory and continue our progress for a better Kaiser together because WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!
KP Virtual Town Hall Tuesday October 17th
Join us for a special KP Virtual Town Hall on ZOOM to hear more updates on this historic agreement and ratification vote information on Tuesday, October 17th at 7pm!
UPDATE 17 – 10/4/2023
We’ll get right to the point. Despite your bargaining team’s effort until the last possible moment, Kaiser executives’ could not come together to offer a fair deal for healthcare workers. We showed up. We gave them notice. But they failed to come to an agreement with our coalition.
It’s time to go ON STRIKE! Our Unfair Labor Practice strike will start at 6am today, October 4th, and will last until 6am on Saturday, October 7th. Please take a minute to follow the link below to review the strike locations and times, as there have been minor changes since the RSVP Form was originally sent out.
Now, let’s talk about why we need to do this.
Kaiser executives are refusing to listen to frontline healthcare workers and are bargaining in bad faith over the solutions we need to end the Kaiser short staffing crisis.
The solution is for Kaiser executives to comply with labor law in discussions with frontline healthcare workers, and invest in rebuilding our workforce. What does that mean?
We’ve shown up time and time again at the bargaining table, and Kaiser executives either refused to meet with our full coalition, or presented us with disrespectful and unacceptable proposals.
It’s time for us to show our power, and show up STRONG to the picket line ON STRIKE against Kaiser executives’ unfair labor practices. It’s time to show them that we’ll do whatever it takes to win a STRONG contract to address the crisis in patient care.
We know that when we fight, WE WIN! It’s time for 75,000 of us to stand Coalition Strong from coast to coast and across Colorado, and show Kaiser executives that we’re not backing down from this fight.
If you have any questions, please reach out to healthcare@seiu105.
UPDATE 16 – 10/3/2023
We are less than 24 hours away from the largest healthcare workers strike in U.S. History, and Kaiser is negotiating intensely… with Kaiser!
Yes, you read that correctly. At this point, the majority of the negotiating happening is between different camps within Kaiser executive leadership: those who want to avoid a strike and those who want to fight it out.
Because of the internal debate raging, we have not heard from Kaiser on an overall settlement package that deals with our top issues. This chaotic approach to negotiations is what has driven Kaiser’s bad-faith bargaining all along, but the dysfunction on their team has never been as stark as it has been over the last day.
Discussions have continued on some important issues. Yesterday we reached a Tentative Agreement on a 40% increase to our Education Fund. This will help expand the support for current Kaiser members to get the education and training needed to promote into higher paid classifications. There has also been slow movement and continued discussion on a range of other issues.
But what Kaiser executives need to get on the same page about is the major questions outstanding in these negotiations:
These are the questions still being debated in Kaiser corporate offices as you read this.
We have no choice but to prepare for the likelihood that Kaiser will continue to choose unfair labor practices over bargaining in good faith with us to solve the Kaiser Staffing crisis. And we are prepared!
The overwhelming majority of SEIU Local 105 members at Kaiser have signed up for a shift on the strike line! Bargaining team members are getting pulled out every hour to do interviews with media outlets, both local and national.
Members in the facilities are getting commitments from doctors, registered nurses, pharmacists, engineers and others to exercise their personal right not to cross our picket lines. Calls are pouring in from elected officials and community allies asking what they can do to support healthcare workers.
We are ready! Stay tuned for an update this afternoon.
SIGN UP FOR YOUR STRIKE PICKET LOCATIONS
There can be no agreement without significant movement from Kaiser on our main issues.
As of this update, we are still committed to our unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW at 6AM on 10/4 – and ending at 6AM on 10/7.
UPDATE 15 – 10/2/2023
Kaiser gave us 3 new proposals yesterday morning:
We did not agree to their proposals. We have told Kaiser that we are not changing our wage proposal and that only a unified, respectful wage increase across the coalition will result in an agreement. We also let them know we are not interested in outsourcing the revenue cycle jobs.
We will continue to send updates as they happen.
A lot of hard work is being done. Some progress is being made. But, make no mistake, there can be no agreement without significant movement from Kaiser on our main issues.
The fact that we are still so far apart on these key issues – and that Kaiser has delayed in responding to our proposals and must stop committing unfair labor practices – means that we are still committed to our strike starting at 6AM on 10/4 – and ending at 6AM on 10/7.
Please contact healthcare@seiu105.org if you have any questions.
UPDATE 14 – 9/30/2023
Negotiations between Kaiser executives and our Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions national bargaining team have continued all day Friday and Saturday. However, it is clear we will not be reaching an agreement before our contract expires this evening.
Since yesterday, minor progress has been made surrounding our middle priority tier of issues, but there have been no additional tentative agreements.
On the top four issues: across the board (ATB) increases, PSP, outsourcing protections, and acquisitions, we have not yet made the progress we need to reach a fair agreement.
Our Coalition is committed to bargaining through the weekend to reach an agreement that solves the Kaiser short-staffing crisis and fixes patient wait times.
In the meantime, Kaiser Executives’ bad-faith bargaining and unfair labor practices will continue to drive healthcare workers out of the industry and hurt the quality of care our patients deserve unless we take action.
That’s why as negotiations continue throughout the weekend, we must stand united with the tens of thousands of Kaiser healthcare workers across the nation and be ready to strike on October 4th, if necessary!
A lot of hard work is being done. Some progress is being made. But, make no mistake, there can be no agreement without significant movement from Kaiser on our main issues.
The fact that we are still so far apart on these key issues – and that Kaiser has delayed in responding to our proposals and must stop committing unfair labor practices – means that we are still committed to our strike starting at 6AM on 10/4 – and ending at 6AM on 10/7.
Please contact healthcare@seiu105.org if you have any questions.
UPDATE 13 – 9/25/2023
Negotiations between Kaiser executives and our SEIU Local 105/Coalition bargaining team have continued all day Saturday and Sunday and late into the evenings and early morning hours. Depending on what the issue is, there have been various degrees of progress, as described below:
RED HOT issues where we are worlds apart and cannot imagine any kind of settlement without major movement on Kaiser’s part.
CRITICAL ISSUES for which there have been good discussion, but not clear where Kaiser is willing to land:
Issues for which there has been actual progress:
A handful of actual tentative agreements!
Next steps
A lot of hard work is being done. Some minimal progress is being made. But, make no mistake, there can be no agreement without a lot of movement from Kaiser on the top four RED HOT Issues. We have agreed with Kaiser to continue meeting till mid-day on Monday and then take a break till Friday morning and meet through the weekend to see if it’s possible to reach an agreement before our contract expires. We will continue to provide updates as we have them.
While it’s great to finally see some progress, we still have a long way to go. The fact that we are still so far apart on the key issues – and that Kaiser has delayed in responding to our proposals and must stop committing unfair labor practices – means that we are still committed to our strike starting at 6AM on 10/4 – and ending at 6AM on 10/7.
TOWN HALL
With just less than a week until our contract expires, and Kaiser executives still refusing to bargain in good faith, it’s clear that unless a drastic change occurs, we’ll have to go ON STRIKE on October 4th.
We know many members have questions about what this means and what happens next.
That’s why THIS Thursday, September 28th, we’ll be hosting another local virtual town hall for SEIU 105 members to hear updates from national and local bargaining, and get your questions answered.
DATE: Thursday, September 28, 2023
TIME: 7PM – 8PM
WHERE: Virtually via Zoom, CLICK HERE TO JOIN
This is an opportunity for you to hear directly from members of your bargaining team and union leadership and ask questions about bargaining, going on strike, and Kaiser executives’ disrespect and unfair labor practices.
STRIKE CAPTAIN TRAINING
We want YOU to be a Strike Captain!
We need a team of dedicated member leaders to serve as “Strike Captains” to help make sure everyone walking off the job stays informed, organized, and safe throughout the strike. Strike Captains are crucial to the success of the strike and it’s easy to learn how to become one!
We currently have ONE MORE virtual Strike Captain Training opportunity for anyone who’s interested in becoming a leader at your facility during the strike. Additional training sessions will be scheduled as needed.
Please contact healthcare@seiu105.org if you have any questions.
UPDATE 12 – 9/22/2023
Strike Notice Delivered
This is an urgent update from your SEIU Local 105 KP Bargaining Team.
After months of national bargaining, actions across our facilities, and an overwhelming 99% YES to strike vote in Colorado, Kaiser executives are STILL refusing to listen to their healthcare workers and are bargaining in bad faith over the solutions we need to end the Kaiser short staffing crisis.
We reached these final scheduled national negotiations ready to hear responses from management to the fair proposals presented over the last several sessions by our 85,000-member Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, and reach a strong agreement for healthcare workers.
What was management’s response? We won’t address livable wages with all of your elected bargaining representatives.
As a result, your SEIU Local 105 bargaining team joined our Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions in delivering a 10-Day STRIKE NOTICE to Kaiser executives.
The unfair labor practice strike will start at 6AM on October 4th and end at 6AM on October 7th.
We wanted to provide this update as quickly as possible and will be sending further details and information on this bargaining session very soon. Please email healthcare@seiu105.org if you have any immediate questions.
TOWN HALL
With just over a week until our contract expires, and Kaiser executives still refusing to bargain in good faith, it’s clear that unless a drastic change occurs, we’ll have to go ON STRIKE on October 4th.
We know many members have questions about what this means and what happens next.
That’s why next Thursday, September 28th, we’ll be hosting another local virtual town hall for SEIU 105 members to hear updates from national and local bargaining, and get your questions answered.
DATE: Thursday, September 28, 2023
This is an opportunity for you to hear directly from members of your bargaining team and union leadership and ask questions about bargaining, going on strike, and Kaiser executives’ disrespect and unfair labor practices.
STRIKE CAPTAIN TRAINING
We want YOU to be a Strike Captain!
We need a team of dedicated member leaders to serve as “Strike Captains” to help make sure everyone walking off the job stays informed, organized, and safe throughout the strike. Strike Captains are crucial to the success of the strike, and it’s easy to learn how to become one!
We currently have ONE MORE virtual Strike Captain Training opportunity for anyone who’s interested in becoming a leader at your facility during the strike. Additional training sessions will be scheduled as needed.
Please contact healthcare@seiu105.org if you have any questions.
UPDATE 11 – 9/7/2023
Kaiser Makes Divisive, Sorely Inadequate Raise Proposal
Despite making $3 billion in profits in just the first six months of this year, Kaiser’s millionaire executives are trying to divide frontline workers instead of working with us to solve the crisis in patient care by providing raises that keep up with the cost of living for ALL of our members.
Here is Kaiser’s offensive wage raise proposal:
Colorado, Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, and Hawaii
Northern California and Washington
Southern California
None of these proposed raises are acceptable. They wouldn’t even come close to helping us keep up with the skyrocketing cost of living here in Colorado or regions across our coalition.
This is just the beginning of Kaiser’s divide-and-conquer strategy. All of us will fall further behind with raises that don’t keep up with the rising cost of living. After all we have been through working on the front lines with Kaiser, we deserve to move forward – not fall farther behind.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Kaiser:
The bargaining team rejects this proposal. With inflation and the rising cost of living as they are, this proposal would put us even further behind and make it even more difficult to hire the additional people we need to solve our understaffing crisis.
Angry? It’s time to stand UNITED and get STRIKE READY!
Colorado showed our unity with our 99% strike authorization vote last week. The rest of our 85,000-member Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions are currently voting in their regions, and their strike authorization votes will last through mid-September.
In the meantime, we must continue to stand united and do our part to stay strike ready!
Here’s how you can do just that:
Join us for our SEIU Local 105 member town hall, where we’ll be giving more updates and answering any questions you may have. Please RSVP and include any questions you have for the bargaining team!
DATE: Monday, September 11, 2023
TIME: 7PM – 8PM
WHERE: Virtually via Zoom, RSVP for Meeting Link
Please contact healthcare@seiu105.org if you have any questions.
UPDATE 10 – 9/1/2023
🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN: Your union has overwhelmingly voted YES to authorize an unfair labor practice STRIKE against Kaiser, if necessary!
That’s right. Over the past week, the majority of Kaiser workers from across Colorado took part in strike authorization voting, and more than 99% of you voted YES!
This is a huge achievement and shows Colorado is UNITED! This is not an easy decision, but the results are clear: healthcare workers have had ENOUGH! We’ve had enough of low wages, short staffing, and the impact it’s having on patients in our community. We’ve had enough of Kaiser’s unfair labor practices throughout national bargaining. That’s why we’re sending a strong message to KP.
We’re ready to strike, if necessary, for livable wages, better staffing, and quality patient care.
Why are we doing this? For our families, our patients, and our community.
It’s no secret how patients are feeling about increasingly longer wait times, and WE know why that’s happening: because Kaiser continues to leave our facilities understaffed and overworked. Our patients are our community, and our community is taking notice:
Even elected officials from across our state have taken notice by joining us at our strike votes and sharing their STRONG support for us in this video.
Now let’s make sure more in our community see our fight. Share these news articles and follow all the posts on our Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
What happens now?
Strike authorization votes have wrapped up in Colorado, and if we DO go on strike, we will not go alone. Now, Kaiser workers in our 85,000 member coalition around the United States will also hold votes until mid-September. If our fellow healthcare workers also vote YES and a strike is necessary, we will all go together.
Our contract expires on September 30th, so any possible strike would not take place before this date. Our bargaining team will continue to show up until that happens, ready to bargain a STRONG contract for healthcare workers.
Our next national bargaining session will take place from September 6th – 8th. As always, we will send out bargaining updates as they occur, and they will always be available on the bargaining updates page on our website.
ARE YOU STRIKE READY?
While a strike has been authorized, going on strike is the last thing we want to do. It’s difficult, both financially and physically. That’s why your bargaining team is STRONGLY urging you to start taking the steps to make yourself STRIKE READY! That means taking time to consider things like:
We’ve put together a page on our website with a helpful list of resources to help you before and during a strike. This includes tips for getting yourself strike ready, as well community resources to provide assistance, and how to answer questions from patients should we go out on strike. This page will be updated regularly.
Please take some time NOW to review this information, and to view the short video below from your bargaining team on what it means to be STRIKE READY!
CKPU National Town Hall on August 10
Join 85,000 of your Coalition union family at 3pm PT // 4pm MT // 6pm ET — or — 6pm PT // 7pm MT // 9pm ET on Thursday, August 10 for:
UPDATE 7 – 7/13/2023
Welcome to the fourth update from your 2023 SEIU Local 105 bargaining team.
Kaiser’s post-pandemic message to healthcare workers: “You’re Overpaid!”
At bargaining this week, the “non-profit” that pays its CEO $16 million a year gave a clear message to the Medical Assistant raising a family on $48K a year in Denver: “You make too much money.”
It’s unbelievable. Kaiser pays 49 executives more than a million dollars a year, but they think a Medical Transporter in Aurora earning $42K a year is making Kaiser unaffordable. The corporation that has over $113 billion in investments – including questionable ventures around the world – believes they are paying healthcare workers $450 million a year too much in wages that are “over market.”
We will be submitting a full economic proposal – including wages – at our next bargaining session on August 1, but the fault lines in negotiations are becoming more and more clear. Our Coalition spoke about how we are falling behind, struggling to afford living where we work and losing ground to rising costs. Kaiser spoke about outsourcing more of our work to low-wage, for-profit companies – undermining middle-class jobs.
Why Can’t Kaiser See Our Value?
What’s good for us is good for Kaiser – but for some reason they can’t seem to see that.
If it wasn’t clear before, it’s clear now: we have a fight on our hands, and Kaiser thinks we’re bluffing. Luckily for us, we’re not.
Join the Informational Picket Action!
Today at the end of bargaining, we delivered to Kaiser management our 10-Day notice to hold an informational picket on Saturday, July 29th at 11AM at the Waterpark facility at 2500 S Havana St, Aurora, CO 80014. It’s clear that the only way that we will get Kaiser to listen to us is to make some noise. And being visible on the busy streets by the Waterpark facility will make sure we are seen and heard! If you are off this Saturday, please join us!
Sign up for the picket today – the more of us that are out on the line, the better our chances to get the contract we deserve!
Note: Stay tuned for a Local Bargaining Update within the next week following our upcoming sessions with local management.
UPDATE 6 – 6/24/2023
Welcome to your third KP National Bargaining update from your 2023 SEIU Local 105 Bargaining Team. The session that wrapped up today was dedicated to discussing the Labor Management Partnership, and we made strong formal proposals to Kaiser management regarding the PSP and the future of the partnership.
Our Proposal to Kaiser
Here are the highlights.
Staffing. Building on our agreement with Kaiser to hire 10,000 new workers into Coalition positions by the end of 2023, we proposed language around reducing registry work, creating paid externships, investing in training, and removing even more of the experience barriers Kaiser workers are facing to “grow our own” at Kaiser.
PSP. We made it very clear. We expect guaranteed minimum payouts every year, and we expect that management will share our goals and payouts so we never again have the situation where our bosses get a bonus for work we did.
Growth. We all want to see Kaiser grow and expand. But any new workers that come in under the Kaiser umbrella – whether it’s here in Colorado, California, or in Pennsylvania or wherever! – have to be part of the partnership and have the right to come together into a union.
Town Hall
We know we have to stand united and be strike ready to win a strong agreement, not just in Colorado but across our national coalition.
Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about what’s next in bargaining and meet other coalition members at the virtual town hall next week on Thursday, June 29th!
Labor Standing Together
While we were in LA, we had the opportunity to join our sisters and brothers of UNITE HERE Local 11 Hotel Workers, who are fighting to afford living in the city where they work. This was an incredible way for us to witness and learn what it takes to build up to a strike.
Together, we blocked one of the main roads leading into LAX to make sure workers’ voices were heard, and three SEIU-UHW members even participated in civil disobedience and got arrested for the action. Si se puede!
UPDATE 5 – 6/22/2023
National Bargaining Updates
Today, the third session of National Bargaining began with our 85,000-member-strong Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions. The focus of this session is the Partnership.
Your SEIU Local 105 National Bargaining Team is here and ready to continue fighting for the priorities we know are essential to having a real partnership; industry-leading wage raises, solving the staffing crisis, and respect.
We’ve been showing our strength across Colorado with our button-up actions this past month, and we have to keep up that pressure! Remember to wear your buttons, update your virtual backgrounds, Purple Up on Fridays, and stay tuned for updates from this session in the coming days.
Coalition National Bargaining Town Hall
The staffing crisis at Kaiser has us at the breaking point. Family budgets are being stretched by inflation. Patient care is rushed and less personal. The Labor Management Partnership is hanging by a thread.
Meanwhile, Kaiser doubled its net worth in the last 5 years and is now sitting on nearly $60 billion in net assets.
85,000 Coalition union members are standing together with our National Bargaining team to make change. The plan to win the respect and contract we deserve includes you.
Find out more at the virtual town halls next week on Thursday, June 29th!
Local Bargaining Updates
While we continue our national negotiations, our bargaining at the local level kicked off on May 26th.
Your 2023 Local Bargaining Team includes, Janet Hobbs, Shelly Fowlkes, Patricia Johnson-Gibson, Passion Hillsmon, Maria Jostes, Tonya Stoner, Eric Coleman, and Jerod Truss.
In February, we sent out a local bargaining survey where you told us the key priorities we should bring to these non-economic negotiations in our region.
After the first two sessions, we’ve presented our positions on those key priorities with no movement from management so far. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for important updates and potential actions to win a strong local agreement.
UPDATE 4 – 5/12/2023
Here is your update for the May session of National Bargaining with our 80,000-member-strong Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions.
This month’s session focused on how to address the staffing crisis, discussing Kaiser’s finances, and Kaiser’s recent announcement to acquire Geisinger Health and start a new company called Risant.
Why the Geisinger Health Acquisition and the Creation of Risant Matters
We called Kaiser out on the acquisition they announced last month of a Pennsylvania medical group called Geisinger Health and the creation of Risant, a new healthcare company that Kaiser intends to use to buy up health systems. With the announcement, Kaiser not only failed to discuss this plan with its unions, but we learned that Kaiser’s top leaders at the Medical Group weren’t even involved in the deal!
Kaiser’s behavior around the Geisinger acquisition has raised critical questions:
No matter what comes out of the rest of bargaining this round, it is clear we have to be ready to fight:
Kaiser Company & Employee Finances
Most of the second day of this session was spent on finances: Kaiser’s finances, the finances of our pension fund, and the finances of the workforce in a time of unprecedented inflation.
Watch this video addressing the need to raise wages featuring one of our SEIU Local 105 Kaiser members:
What’s next?
Stay updated!
Visit the KP section of our website to see updates from this sessions bargaining and important action dates!
Get the facts!
Find out what 33,140 allied healthcare workers at more than 100 medical facilities across California have to say about the most severe crisis in healthcare in more than 100 years.
Healthcare professionals detail dire understaffing and mental health crises. See the facts and figures behind the staffing shortage crisis.
UPDATE 2 – 4/19/2023
Here’s your update from Day 2 of this opening session of KP National Bargaining. The topic for today’s discussions was staffing.
We’ve issued our first challenge to Kaiser mangement: Hire 10,000 new workers.
The biggest issue we have to solve at Kaiser is the chronic understaffing we face in our facilities. And Kaiser knows it too! They shared some eye-popping statistics with us:
Watch what your co-workers have to say about understaffing at Kaiser by clicking the video below.
In response, CEO Greg Adams joined the convention via Zoom, and delivered much of the same we’ve heard from management. Concerns over staffing, a rapidly changing industry, and the desire to work together and educate members on the economic realities of the company.
It’s clear during the opening of bargaining that the foundation of the national partnership is broken, and the only way to fix it during this process is if we are able to reach an agreement that delivers industry-leading raises and improvements for healthcare workers across the organization.
The following two days of this first bargaining session will focus on discussing solutions to the staffing crisis. Stay tuned for more updates and actions in the days to follow.
