The California chapter of the National Association of Social Workers has written a letter to Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams calling on Kaiser to “resume good faith negotiations with NUHW’s Southern California members as soon as possible, and accept the union’s reasonable contract proposals.”
We had an extra good week in San Diego, where several workers were special guests at the Labor Council’s holiday party on Wednesday. They spoke about the strike and got several dozen participants to sign our support petition.
We had an eventful day on the picket lines, especially in Lancaster, where Kaiser security illegally walked around with a clipboard taking notes on what they saw. Strikers recorded Kaiser’s illegal surveillancing, and Kaiser’s overzealous head of security was so bothered by it that he grabbed the phone of a striker and threw it on the...
Between the National Association of Social Workers and the leaders of the State Senate and Assembly, a growing number of influential stakeholders are telling Kaiser it needs to settle this contract now.
This week, State Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire joined Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas in calling on Kaiser CEO Greg Adams to “agree to the union’s reasonable contract proposals."
Week Six of our strike is off to a festive start. We had a lot of fun with our Where’s Waldo/Where’s Kaiser theme. Someone on the San Diego line even put a Greg Adams nametag on the fat cat.
With a strike by nearly 2,400 Kaiser mental health professionals in Southern California entering its second month Thursday, Kaiser therapists in Northern California will join their striking colleagues for simultaneous noontime rallies outside Kaiser corporate offices in Pasadena and Oakland.
With Kaiser facing increased political pressure to return to the bargaining table, striking workers in Southern California and their counterparts in the north took their message directly to company executives.
More than three-quarters of the 2,300 Providence workers fighting to win common contractual standards throughout Northern California have signed a unity petition, pledging to work together to safeguard care in their communities.
