Our ONA Bargaining Team is pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser Permanente for our local contract. This agreement is a direct result of the pressure you placed on Kaiser from the inside, even while your fellow members were out on strike, our vote of no confidence in Greg Adams, and the countless actions you and your coworkers took at your worksites. Through your collective action, we were able to move Kaiser to an agreement that improves many areas of our contract.
This agreement is tentative until it is ratified by OFNHP members in the ONA unit. That means you will have the opportunity to vote on whether to accept this agreement. Our bargaining team endorses this agreement and, when we reach ratification, recommends a “yes” vote. Ratification will not take place until we have reached a tentative agreement at the national table. This does not mean we should wait to discuss the significant wins in our local contract or delay answering the questions you may have.
Below is a summary of our key wins. Please take time over the holidays to review the summary and prepare your questions for discussion with our bargaining team. We will hold Zoom sessions soon to answer your questions and share more.
We are working hard to prepare the complete agreement for your review and will share it with you before any ratification vote takes place.
Read Complete TAs:
| Issue | Wins |
| Contract Clean-up | · Added definition for our surgical specialty team leads · On call language strengthened and changed requirements · Added “Casual On Call” language. · Standardized process for UCC holiday scheduling · Mission work language added · Traveler Language added |
| Compensation | · 12.5% Local Market Wage Adjustment |
· New step for 30 year nurses (longevity step). ·$2.30 preceptor pay extended to precepting of travel nurses. · New Weekend Diff-$1.50/hr. | |
| Education Fund | · Increased funds from $200.00 to $400.00 |
| PTO | · Improved bereavement benefits · Increasing our bereavement time off by 1 day · Reducing the mileage requirement for extra bereavement days. · Added float holiday for a total of 4. · Preserved Flex Time |
| Scheduling | · Ability to use EWOP vs WOP · “Golden Ticket” language for everybody · Keeping work with KP RNs. · Ability to give 1 year of availability in scheduling system. |
| Professional Advancement | · Clinical shift for charge nurses · Investment in professional nurse advancement · Expansion of preceptor pay while training travelers. · Charge and Relief charge nurse selection. |
| Attendance Policy | · If employee health directs you to take days off in accordance with infectious disease policy those days are now protected from being used towards discipline. |
| Seniority | ·More transparency with calculating seniority. ·Removal of manual calculation of seniority when transferring to/from OFNHP RN BU. ·RIF language improved ·New severance language |