Kaiser Refuses Our Proposals, Offers Unacceptable Takeaways
Your elected bargaining team fought hard at the table, but, due to management’s unacceptable proposed takeaways and unwillingness to meet our demands, our final scheduled bargaining session ended without an agreement. Kaiser demanded massive cuts, and our bargaining team rejected them all, including:
EXPOSING THE BIG LIE IN KAISER’S CONTRACT PROPOSAL
In National Bargaining, Kaiser executives have proposed massive cuts — some of which they say would “only impact future employees.”
This is a classic anti-worker tactic that employers use to divide workers, slash benefits, and lower wages for ALL workers. Continue reading “Cutting Wages and Benefits of Future Kaiser Workers Harms ALL Kaiser Workers”
Kaiser leadership is digging in its heels on a plan to cut wages and benefits in an effort to deeply divide the workforce and our union—and we cannot let that happen. We know that Kaiser has been making record profits—and even just announced plans to spend $900 MILLION on a brand-new headquarters building in California!
We also know that our work is the key to Kaiser’s extraordinary financial success. Despite this, management believes that we, the Kaiser healthcare workers in the Northwest, are overpaid! During bargaining, they claimed we are paid 26% above market-rate for healthcare workers in our region. Continue reading “We won’t accept cuts, now or in the future!”
SEIU Local 49 bargaining team members Jacy LaPlante and Julie Markiewicz report back from National Bargaining in Oakland, CA. For a full report on Kaiser management’s proposals, be sure to read the June 19 bargaining update.
Kaiser leadership is digging in its heels on a plan to cut wages and benefits in an effort to deeply divide the workforce and our union—and we cannot let that happen.
We know that Kaiser has been making record profits—and even just announced plans to spend $900 MILLION on a brand new headquarters building in California!
We also know that our work is the key to Kaiser’s extraordinary financial success. Despite this, management believes that we, the Kaiser healthcare workers in the Northwest, are OVERPAID.
Continue reading “We won’t accept cuts—now or in the future!”
As our third round of bargaining concluded on May 30, it’s clear that Kaiser management is still intent on pushing through takeaways that are unacceptable to SEIU 49 members.
