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Alliance Poster Action Social Media Kit

The action that begins on May 5th is designed to raise the profile of our campaign and union as we enter into national bargaining alongside the 60,000-member strong Alliance of Healthcare Unions. All locals have been provided with signs that our members can write on and hold in photos and videos. You will be encouraged to post photos of yourself featuring your signs and written additions, and this is a guide to help you create your own authentic social media posts needed as we escalate our campaign.

These signs have been designed by the Alliance of

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This May 1st, join your community in standing up for an international day of solidarity!

International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, is a historic celebration of the working class, unions, and the gains of the Labor movement we continue to experience today. Its roots go back over a hundred years, and stands in remembrance of the Haymarket affair: a powerful, yet tragic, demonstration in the fight for the eight-hour workday.

International Workers’ Day serves as a reminder of the ongoing fight for human dignity and equity in the workplace. It commemorates the sacrifices and triumphs of

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Workers Memorial Day is observed annually on April 28, commemorating the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), which affirms every worker's fundamental right to a safe workplace.

This legislation was established through the relentless efforts of the labor movement, advocating for improved working conditions and governmental action to safeguard workers.

This day serves both to honor those we've lost and as a call to action to continue the fight for workplace safety. Unions nationwide gather to pay tribute to every worker who has died due to workplace injuries or illnesses.

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Lab week schedule

Now that the Halsey Street Labcorp location has won their union election, we have joined our bargaining teams so that all fourteen Labcorp locations are now bargaining together! We have been in negotiations for months but still have a long ways to go to win our first contract. We will keep you informed as we head back to the table.

Lab week is coming up next week, which is a great chance for us to share more about our work with the public and raise the profile of our campaign! Check out our schedule below, but we are also encouraging our members to take photos and videos and either post them on

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By Dave Crone RT steward SMC

Kaiser Respiratory Therapists (RTs) have been speaking up about woefully lagging wages for years. Despite a sit-in and march on the boss and after weeks of silence we were told KPNW, “does not have an interest in negotiating an adjustment to Respiratory Therapist wage scales,” according to VP of HR, Todd Lindamood.


While Mr. Lindamood claims to appreciate Respiratory Therapists’ passion and dedication to members and Kaiser Permanente, inaction speaks louder than words. Appreciation would look like a respectful partnership, timely responses, working together in good

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By Chris Stafford Ortho Tech steward SMC/SYB    

Kaiser Orthopedic Technologists have been speaking up and fighting for restoration of safe orthopedic and podiatric care. We are standing in lockstep with our provider and allied staff partners voicing our collective concern and outrage via our, “We care, KP Exploits it!” wristband campaign and our safe staffing petition. Despite these actions Non Clinically Trained KP administrators Bo Lockhart and Tony Juarez have targeted Orthopedic Technologists and our highly valued technical skills in the name of profits over safe patient care.


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Launch photo

On Tuesday we kicked off 2025 Kaiser bargaining. Labor and management came together for a joint training on Interest-Based Bargaining (IBB) that included all six of our bargaining teams, our national bargaining team, and representatives from the Alliance and the Permanente Medical Group. At this meeting we set the stage and expectation that we remain focused on driving towards a problem-solving and meaningful results-driven bargaining season. Our bargaining teams are prepared and ready to get to the table where they will stand united in demanding:

  • Safe staffing and patient access - because
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Workers Standing United!

Here's how you can easily plug into our Kaiser campaign.

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Send a letter to our state's leaders telling them you want unemployment insurance to be offered to striking workers.

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We are excited to host our first-ever social media activism training! As many of you have seen, we often take action online at the same time we engage in worksite actions as a way of enhancing and broadening the visibility of our message. These actions often include members posting on their own personal social media using features like "tagging" and "hashtags" to help connect the various posts. But if you have never engaged in this kind of social media activity, these features might be entirely new to you.

So we have created a short training you can attend to learn how you can participate in

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