- Who is the Alliance of Health Care Unions (AHCU)?
- What is happening with negotiations?
- What are Alliance unions coming together to do?
- Are we still in the Partnership? What about our benefits?
Who is the Alliance of Health Care Unions (AHCU)?
- A majority of local unions in the prior coalition have formed the Alliance of Health Care Unions. Leadership from these 21 local unions are actively building the new structure, building on the successes of the past, while addressing the issues that created disunity in recent years.
- In the Northwest, our brothers and sisters of UFCW 555 and ILWU 21 will be with us in the Alliance.
What is happening with negotiations?
- Kaiser Permanente has canceled the previously scheduled April 11-12 National Bargaining sessions. Senior management has said they want to step back and talk to all of the locals before they re-engage in any bargaining process.
- Union leadership from Alliance locals will be meeting with management soon to discussion plans for national and local bargaining and our vision for the future.
What are Alliance unions coming together to do?
- Working together with unions members across the Kaiser Permanente system, we will win a strong national agreement with Kaiser that covers all of our unions.
- In coordination, we can also re-negotiate our local agreements to win the improvements in staffing and backfill we badly need.
- Our goal is to finish by September 30, when our existing contracts expire, but we'll take the time necessary to get it right.
Are we still in the Partnership? What about our benefits?
- OFNHP and the other unions of the Alliance of Health Care Unions withdrew from the prior coalition, but not the Labor-Management Partnership with Kaiser.
- The LMP and the current national agreement remain in full force, meaning EISA, no-cancellation, Ben Hudnall, our UBTs, and our benefits like healthcare and retirement will continue.