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AFT President Randi Weingarten addressed the health professionals on the first day of the conference.

AFT nurses and healthcare professionals from across the country gathered in Detroit April 13-15. They came carrying the weight of understaffing, growing patient demand and a healthcare system under attack but left with something stronger: a shared sense of purpose and concrete plans to act. The “Together We Care” 2026 professional issues conference wasn’t about passive listening. It was a rehearsal for what comes next. 

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PeaceHealth Pro reminding leadership that Compassion Includes Caregivers!

PeaceHealth Southwest Professionals have been fighting to win their first contract, and management continues to stall on the issues that matter most for workers and patient care.

We’re calling on OFNHP members across all worksites and all community supporters and patients to stand in solidarity and join an upcoming rally in support of PHSW Pros.

This fight reflects the broader challenges we are all facing. When employers refuse to engage on core issues like staffing, wages, and working conditions, it impacts standards across our union. Showing up together is how we build the pressure needed to

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After 360 days of bargaining with Kaiser and standing together in the largest healthcare worker strike of 2025, we reached a Tentative Agreement (TA). And our membership has spoken.
 
This agreement was approved by 90% of voting members, with a total voter turnout of 78%.
 
This outcome reflects more than numbers. It reflects the strength of our collective strategy, the resilience of all of you, and the power of members coming together to shape the conditions of our work and the care we provide.
 
This contract is the result of a long and determined campaign, including an unforgettable five-day
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After more than a year of organizing, bargaining, and a historic five-day strike, OFNHP and our Alliance siblings reached a complete Tentative Agreement with Kaiser Permanente. These agreements represent the culmination of months of coordinated organizing, bargaining, and solidarity among more than 62,000 healthcare workers across Kaiser Permanente.

Together, our Tentative Agreement locks in key economic improvements for the next contract, preserves all benefits under the National Agreement, and sets our union up for greater success in the future with alignment on a common expiration date

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All six of our Kaiser Permanente bargaining and recently reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) for our local contracts at each unit-specific bargaining table. You can visit here to read about our recent complete TA.

This page will be kept up to date so that you can see updates from all of our bargaining units and the national table, as well as any other resources you will need along the way. Remember that we are to be wearing red, union colors, on every Tuesday during the campaign.

Now that we have reached Tentative Agreements (TAs) on all six of our local agreements, you can read a summary and

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OFNHP delivered an on-the-record proposal to Kaiser Permanente with the intent to resolve all outstanding bargaining issues and put into effect hard-fought improvements we’ve already won in local and national bargaining.
 
Our proposal addresses our key priorities: retro pay, contract alignment, and preservation of all the rights and benefits in our national and local contracts.
 
 
This round of bargaining has reminded me of Maya Angelou’s famous advice: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
 
Kaiser has taken the position that they will no longer engage in national
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