At the first meeting of the national bargaining subcommittee on economics on Monday, May 17, Alliance leaders told senior KP executives we expect negotiations to result in excellent National and Local Agreements. Alliance Executive Director Hal Ruddick introduced some...
As healthcare workers struggle to heal from the physical and mental health effects of COVID, KP executives say our wages are too high. While we fought a desperate, life and death struggle on the frontlines of the pandemic, KP leaders — without labor involvement — set...
For Pamela J. Sebesky, a Local 400 member and 24-year Kaiser veteran who works as a cardiology nurse at its Tysons Corner Medical Center, public service is a way of life. “I have always been a believer that if you see something that isn’t right, you need to be part of...
The following bargaining update is from the Alliance of Health Care Unions negotiating a new nationwide contract with Kaiser Permanente: Orange County, June 26 – In the first of two jam-packed days of bargaining, union negotiators initially made some progress...
For 18 years, Isolina (“Izzy”) Pistolessi has worked as a nurse at Kaiser’s Falls Church Care Center, but she has done so much more. On the job, she is a mentor to other nurses, conducts outreach to the community, promotes public health, educates and cares for...
