This week, 2,000 Local 39 Stationary Engineers joined 17,000 RNs with the California Nurses Association to announce they will sympathy strike with 4,000 NUHW healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente.
The Kaiser NUHW members, who include RNs, optical workers, and mental health professionals across California, are protesting Kaiser’s unfair labor practices and its refusal to bargain in good faith.
Despite Kaiser’s robust profits ($5.7 billion in the past 2.5 years) and its warm-and-fuzzy $1.3 billion advertising campaign about improving the public’s health, Kaiser has refused to accept caregivers’ reasonable bargaining proposals aimed at addressing serious short-staffing and patient-care issues.
Kaiser’s executives, who enjoy multi-million dollar salaries and up to eight pensions apiece, are also insisting on eliminating workers’ defined-benefit pensions and retiree health coverage as well as cutting their health benefits.
On Monday, the International Union of Operating Engineers, Stationary Engineers, Local 39 officially notified Kaiser Permanente of its intent to honor next week’s statewide strike by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Altogether, 23,000 Kaiser workers now plan to participate in the walk-out on September 22nd.
Read the Stationary Engineers’ letter to Kaiser.
Documents We're Waiting On
- Things We're Waiting For: Tracing $8 Million Sent to CCA During Fairgrounds Sale - Pacific Progressive
Nossaman did research on how to use Fairgrounds money to provide opening capital for the Fair Foundation. $8 million was sent to the California Construction Authority during the sale, and there is documentation that indicates this could be the money for the opening capital. We've asked for the money to be traced, and Interim CEO Doug Lofstrom is giving us the run around.
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