2025 Kaiser Bargaining Summaries

UNAC/UHCP Bargaining Table Summaries: KP Units Voting 9/16 – 9/19

Hawaii:

Kaiser Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (Hawaii, UNAHI)
UNAHI has secured 18 tentative agreements so far, but the major issues are still unsettled. The union continues to push for pay equity with California and a fair wage grid, protections for benefits such as the Pension and Plan B, and improved PTO accrual that aligns with California standards.

Kaiser Pharmacists (Hawaii, UPHI)
UPHI has reached important tentative agreements, including winning a third round of vacation bidding with fairer ad-hoc PTO rules, as well as expanding education language so pharmacists may use education time beyond NABP-approved CE credits. The union is still fighting for California-level pay equity and for PTO accruals that more closely match other regions.

Kaiser Therapists (Hawaii, UTH)
Secured a major tentative agreement on vacation bidding, which ensures that members will now receive their hourly pay for completing Home Study CE credits. However, several important issues remain unresolved, including ending holiday sick-day penalties, adding workload protections, achieving wage equity with California, and improving PTO accrual to match mainland levels.

Northern California

Kaiser PAs (Northern California, UPAC)
Tentative agreements ensure that vacated PA positions will be refilled by another PA rather than given to an NP, along with other improvements that remain linked to unresolved items. Outstanding issues include establishing a wage grid that honors experience, securing retirement and medical benefits, increasing PTO accrual, and expanding education time and funds for travel.

Kaiser Therapists and Acupuncturists (Northern California, ATNC)
Tentative agreements include adding two acupuncture provider seats to the Regional Practice Groups Steering Committee and expanding bereavement leave for full-time, part-time, and per diem employees. Outstanding issues are the expansion of the wage grid to include acupuncture providers and workload concerns related to appointment times and patient management.

Southern California

Kaiser Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants (Southern California, Blue Nation: KBKRNA, KBPRNA, KDRNA, KFRNA, KLARNA, KOCPA, KOVHCPA, KPRNA, KRRN-UHCP, KSBHPA, KSDHCPA, KWHPA, KWHRNA)
The team is proud of the significant improvements we have made to the contract. These include tentative agreements such as APP professional development return, job bidding language which prioritizes our members before external applicants (including charge nurse positions), and a committee for home care. We have accomplished many of our goals at bargaining, however our most important priorities have yet to be agreed upon: Wages and staffing/workload for both our RNs and APPs.

Kaiser Dietitians, Audiologists, Speech Pathologists, Health Educators, Child Life Specialists (DASH, Southern California)
Tentative agreements have been reached on per diem commitments, ACP sick hours, vacation, vacancy notices, gender-neutral language, CFY, and starting steps. Significant discussion and proposals have been made on Speech lead, but no agreement has been reached on reclassification of misclassified RDs, postings for members seeking Level 2 after certification, or alternative work schedules. Agreements are still pending on the Audiologist pathway to Level 2, a regional SLP Home Care workload committee, additional ETO accrual for part-timers working extra hours, and alternative work schedules. No counters have been received on wage grid proposals, including longevity pay, additional steps, and market adjustments.

Kaiser Permanente Certified Specialty Professionals (Southern California, KPCSP)
Tentative agreements include adding ICDNS III to the Advance Practice Provider Committee, requiring notification of job postings, and recognition of gender pronouns. Management has not agreed to economic proposals, timely responses to incidental time-off requests, clean-up of ESL/ETO language, or criteria and processes for CNM lead selection.

Kaiser Specialty Care Nurses (SCNSC, Southern California)
Several tentative agreements were reached, including Just Culture, per diem commitment, bereavement leave, vacation language cleanup, grievance and arbitration, education leave requests, ESL usage intent, and increased preceptor pay. Additional agreements secured include ACP earned time off cleanup, ACP paid sick leave, gender-neutral pronouns, mandatory training, professional practice forums, and probation and evaluation. Outstanding issues with management remain on the wage grid and QBS.

Kaiser Pharmacists (Southern California, UPSC)
Tentative agreements include mandatory trainings, time-off request procedures, and utilization of CE education. Economic proposals remain unresolved.

Kaiser Therapists (Southern California, UTSC)
Tentative agreements include gender-neutral language, updates to the grievance procedure, paid sick leave for non-benefited HCPs, and clarification of seniority for therapists with multiple statuses. Management has rejected or left pending proposals on lactation accommodation, just culture, per diem clarification, tuition reimbursement, staffing and workload, filling vacancies, national certification updates, and wages. The wage proposal has been on the table since June without a response.

Note: These are table summaries as of Sept. 16. Please see below for our ongoing table updates.