News and Bargaining Updates

Exciting News for USW 7600 Members: New Office in Riverside!

We are thrilled to announce the opening of a new office right in the heart of Riverside, California, just across the street from Kaiser Permanente on Magnolia Avenue and Polk (the old patient suppo

Alliance Members Reach Historic Savings, Earn PSP BONUS

Alliance PSP Updates

Because of your hard work, dedication, and ingenuity, we met our affordability goals across the board, resulting in a historic savings of over $9

What Does Strike Authorization Mean?

Our contract expired at midnight and we are now working without an agreement.

KP ultimately would not agree to our offer to extend the agreement while we continue to negotiate.

Kaiser can’t keep staffing issues and wage disparities in the shadows.

We will continue to move forward with our strike authorization vote.

Sept. 17: USW 7600 Pauses Partnership

Throughout our contract negotiations, KP has made outrageous demands. Management is refusing to act as an equal partner by proposing below market wage increases to frontline workers who put their lives and their families at risk throughout the pandemic.

Sept. 10: National Bargaining Update

We’re ready to fight for our patients and all health care workers

DAILY BARGAINING UPDATE | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Final national bargaining session ended with no progress

We’re ready to fight for our patients and all health care workers

Sept. 9: National Bargaining Update

Alliance negotiators keep pushing to improve the lives of patients and workers; Kaiser doesn't move on key economic issues

DAILY BARGAINING UPDATE | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Sept. 4: Bargaining Update; What You Need To Know

Progress on racial justice, safety and dispute resolution; KP digs in on destructive staffing and economic positions

With contract negotiations entering their final scheduled days next week, our bargaining team made progress on racial justice, patient and worker safety, and improving dispute resolution. But KP clung to destructive, unsustainable positions on economics and staffing. The final national bargaining sessions are next Wednesday, September 8, through Friday, September 10.

Sept. 2: KP Proposal Will Worsen Wage Injustice

DAILY BARGAINING UPDATE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Today the Alliance released a new analysis of KP’s two-tier wage proposal. If implemented, the KP proposal would see newly-hired USW mobility techs, housekeeping attendants, and dietary aides in the Inland Empire earning less than California minimum wage! KP’s proposed two-tier system would only make the wage injustice in the Inland Empire worse.

In Person Meetings Cancelled for September 2021

USW Local 7600 Strongly Urging KP (Incentive Pay For Members)

In the past few weeks we have received many questions about incentive pay and why certain classifications are receiving incentives for additional shifts and not everyone.

The Union has been strongly urging KP Regional and Local Senior Leaders to reinstate the incentive agreements reached during the winter surge, and also to include additional classifications.