Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions Archives

The union is still seeking to put pressure on the company by encouraging patients to drop Kaiser, saying their health care could be at risk.

One day before a planned strike, SEIU Local 1199NW reached a tentative agreement for a local add-on to Kaiser Permanente’s national contract.

75,000 workers struck Kaiser Permanente for 3 days. Now a 4-year agreement brokered by the U.S. Secretary of Labor provides 21% raises.

Local 555 withdrew last month from the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, a group that bargains for Kaiser employees in seven states.

Northwest pharmacists walked out Oct. 1, and 75,000 other Kaiser workers in five states began their own strike Oct. 4.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in seven states and Washington D.C. are voting on a strike authorization through Sept. 16.

SEIU Local 49 picketed three hospitals July 24-28 to protest unsafe staffing and draw attention to difficulty getting a new union contract.

The massive strike was averted when management dropped its anti-union two tier demand and agreed to raise wages 10% over the next four years.

Increasingly, Kaiser’s union partnership appears to be unraveling, and for the second time in two years, it could be nearing a strike.

The union is leaving the recently-formed Alliance of Health Care Unions as of Jan. 1