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UPSC Bargaining Update: May 18, 2021

Bargaining Update: May 18, 2021 Our UPSC bargaining team met with Kaiser Permanente today to kick off 2021 local bargaining. While negotiations this week were limited to introductory conversations, we are preparing to bargain intensely over the next two months. The process when we negotiate our local agreements that impact… Read More

UPSC Bargaining Update: May 27, 2021

Bargaining Update: May 27, 2021 Our UPSC bargaining team secured five tentative agreements today during negotiations, including clarifying our education leave policies to ensure fairness to all pharmacists no matter our FTE status. Our team negotiated the addition of clean-up and intent language in five areas covering grievance and arbitration,… Read More

UTSC Bargaining Update: May 25, 2021

Bargaining Update: May 25, 2021 Our UTSC bargaining team engaged in a spirited discussion with Kaiser Permanente today regarding the use of per diem therapists in KP Southern California. The process for interest-based bargaining allows for a longer and richer conversations where the objective is for interests from both sides… Read More

UTSC Bargaining Update: May 21, 2021

Bargaining Update: May 21, 2021 Our UTSC bargaining team met with Kaiser Permanente today to kick off 2021 local bargaining. While negotiations this week were limited to introductory conversations, we are preparing to bargain intensely over the next two months. The process when we negotiate our local agreements that impact… Read More

KP National Bargaining Continues (May 26, 2021)

Our UNAC/UHCP National Bargaining Teams have been meeting for the past several weeks. Below is more information on the four non-economic subcommittees addressing the key issues in national bargaining this year. Patient and worker safety UNAC/UHCP Executive Vice President Charmaine Morales, RN, is a co-lead for… 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