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Tentative Agreement on New National Contract! taken from "insideout"
coalition of Kaiser Permanente UNIONS |
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Los Angeles, May 28 - The Coalition
of Kaiser Permanente Unions reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente on a new, two-year National Agreement. The
tentative agreement provides for annual 3% across-the-board wage increases, maintenance of current benefits, an enhanced sick
leave cash-out option, stable funding for workforce development trust funds, and strengthening the Labor Management Partnership. The agreement will be submitted to the members
of individual unions for ratification this summer. If ratified,the contract and the first annual wage increase, will be effective
October 1, 2010. For USW Local 7600 members, the dates are in the process of being determined for the ratification meetings.
Flyers will be distributed with the times and date, as well as the website being updated. Economics: Two across-the-board wage increases, effective October 1, 2010 and October 1, 2011, for all Coalition members in
every region. An additional 0.5% for Southern
California registered nurses, and an 0.5% retention bonus for clinical lab scientists in every region. Maintenance of all current benefits. Funding for the Workforce Planning and Development Trust funds, which provide
for worker training and skill upgrades both for current and displaced workers, at the rate of 0.27% of annual payroll. Two-year agreement expires September 30, 2012. Sick leave cash-out incentive increased to 75%.
Our mission is to give voice
to the voiceless, to speak as one, to uphold the integrity of our word and hold fast to the principles of workplace fairness
and equity, as supported through our teaching and educating values of Unionism and the Labor Movement, thereby strengthening
membership resolve to live up to the rights and obligations of our contracts.
Kaiser Permanente works--because
we All do!
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Questions or comments?
Fontana Union
Hall
16855 Arrow Blvd. Fontana, Ca. 92335
Phone: 909-427-6188
Fax:
909-427-5546 Or 909-427-4423
Riverside
Union Hall
18710 Van Buren Blvd. Riverside, Ca. 92508
Phone: 951-776-4477
Fax:
951-776-4491
Corona Call Office
Phone:
951-5493310
Fax: 951-549-3109
USW Local 7600
Servicing Kaiser Permanente Healthcare/Service Workers
throughout the "INLAND EMPIRE".
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