Posted on 11/13/2021 7:49:48 AM PST by rktman
Across corporate America, relations between companies and their labor unions range from chilly to ice-cold. Not at Kaiser Permanente – the California-based healthcare giant. Kaiser has long been seen as having the nation’s best labor-management partnership. Now the partnership finds itself in crisis as 34,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers prepare to strike on Monday, in what would be the largest walkout in this fall’s strike wave.
It certainly caused a strong reaction in Semanu Mawugbe, a Kaiser nurse in Los Angeles. “It’s a slap in the face,” he said, noting that the 1%-a-year offer was well below this year’s 5%-plus inflation rate. “They tell us we’re heroes and we’re much appreciated because of everything we did during the pandemic”, he said. “But their offer shows they don’t mean it. We’re the ones who sustained the hospitals and took care of the sick like it’s a war zone.” The unions say Kaiser is seeking to squeeze wages when the non-profit company is doing well, with $45bn in cash reserves and $6.8bn in operating profits the last three years.
Since Kaiser’s labor-management partnership was founded in 1997, none of its 35 union locals has gone on strike. The partnership includes over 100,000 union members. Kaiser overall has $89bn in annual revenues, 12 million health plan members, 39 hospitals and more than 700 other medical facilities spread across eight states and Washington DC.
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$45bn in cash reserves >>> Keep in mind it is an insurer as well as an actual provider.
Most nurses at kaiser make $70.00/per hr and they want more?? It’s also the ancillary personal going on strike as well
Per fed rules health plans must have cash reserves.
One glow bull scamdemic could wipe that in an instant. Right? 😨😏
Nurses at my hospital were making $77 Dollars an hour 9 years ago, unionized of course.
That is OK with me. These days I have Recruiters offering me more than $5300 a week, though I have not read the fine print at all. I figure that is likely about 3K when all is said and done. Doesn’t matter, I am all done. I like this sleeping late stuff. It suits me.
So what. It is time to stick it to these woke companies any way we can.
No jab, no job.
No jobs, no workers.
No workers, no business.
Math is hard.
WOW that is a nice amount, working 12 hr days i guess they can get it.. i worked both in a hospital and on the insurance side for more yrs they i can believe, rather sit on my butt and read FR..
Agreed.
That info will be called private or be shunted into other financial reporting. Kp employees make the most(in general) compared to others. From my humble knowledge. They are always threatening to strike. Unions can be good...they can be abusive.
Management can be good..they can be bad. There are plenty of non-unioners happy to work at kp. We’ll see who blinks.
That was why Chrysler gave up a seat on their board to the unions. And why the employees paid such a high price for United Airlines when they bought it. Shenanigans.
Aren’t many of these health care “workers” in the SEIU? One of the most belligerently, pro-Democrat unions?
Kaiser Strike will not happen:
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