Category Archive: COVID-19

COVID-19 Update: UNAC/UHCP Letter to Our Employers On COVID Work, Pay

UNAC/UHCP Urges Employers to Protect Health Care Staff, Provide COVID Leave Benefits On January 11, 2022: UNAC/UHCP, on behalf of our 32,000 registered nurses and healthcare professionals, called for employers to protect our health care staff and our patients through actions that include providing COVID sick leave, solving the staffing… Read More

COVID-19 UPDATE: UNAC/UHCP Sues To Keep OSHA Safety Standards in Place

  UNAC/UHCP and AFSCME Join Legal Action To Safeguard Federal COVID-19 Protections Prompted by federal government plans to curb the emergency temporary standard (ETS) for protecting health care workers from COVID-19, UNAC/UHCP and AFSCME are asking for COVID safety standards to not only continue but be made permanent. In a… Read More

Vaccine Mandate Effects Bargaining: Kaiser Permanente

The first thing to understand is that the vaccine mandate is established by state law, not through collective bargaining. We have no legal standing to oppose the mandate. We do have the power to bargain over the effects of the mandate, which we have done. With our Alliance partners, we’ve… Read More

UNAC/UHCP Facebook Live: United to Heal – A Virtual Vigil for All

UNAC/UHCP Vigil Remembers COVID Losses and Looks to Healing The value of our lifesaving nurses, professionals, and essential workers has never been felt so deeply by so many. Our communities recognize and respect our commitment, and they too continue to show their commitment to us: Neighbors and grandmas and… Read More

Respite from Chaos: RNs and Health Care Professionals Roar Out Their Trauma

Nurses and health care professionals climaxed their candlelight vigil in Panorama City on Wednesday night, April 28, with a collective roar, shout, and scream—a cathartic release of more than a year’s pent-up emotion—so they could begin to heal. For nearly an hour, those assembled, socially distanced and masked, held electric… Read More

Get Educated, Get Vaccinated

GET EDUCATED, GET VACCINATED To reach protective immunity, we need to vaccinate a significant number of people. Become empowered against COVID-19, take the vaccine as soon as possible. UNAC/UHCP members talk about the value of good decisions in the era of COVID. #ThisIsOurShot… Read More

COVID-19 Update: Gov. Newsom Signs UNAC/UHCP-Backed Bill on COVID-19 Claims

The new law prevents employers from automatically denying workers compensation for health care employees and others on the front lines of the COVID-19 battle. The legislation creates a ‘rebuttable presumption’ that COVID-19-related illness or death is a workplace injury and therefore eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. Today, UNAC/UHCP members… Read More

COVID-19 Update: Unions Negotiate Extended KP COVID Childcare Benefit

Grant program will last through mid-December Kaiser Permanente has agreed to reinstate the childcare benefit effective August 17 through December 19, 2020, with a benefit of up to $200 per week. This announcement comes after many weeks of discussion between the employer and UNAC/UHCP and the rest of the Alliance… Read More

COVID-19 Update: July 3, 2020

UNAC/UHCP COVID-19 Update: July 2, 2020 As we head into Independence Day weekend, COVID numbers are hitting all-time highs across the country. It’s almost impossible to keep up with all the frightening new data: New U.S. coronavirus cases passed 50,000 yesterday for the first time, setting a new… Read More