Ontario Vineyard (Kaiser)
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Ontario Vineyard (Kaiser) News
Governor Now Has Chance to Strengthen State’s Landmark Patient Safety Law
Posted on August 27, 2012
Help This Bill Become Law! RNs: Click here to send an email to California Governor Jerry Brown asking him to sign SB 1246! (Everyone else, click here)
BRN Renewals
Posted on August 23, 2012
Renewing your BRN license this year? Be smart and do it early or do it online. Word is there have been delays in processing license renewals this year. Don’t get caught in the system. Online, early, or both!
Favorable Settlement Won for Kaiser Primary Care Advice RNs
Posted on August 3, 2012
After a long, hard-fought battle, UNAC/UHCP reached a settlement agreement with Kaiser on two grievances concerning patient safety and workload for primary care advice RNs. To improve message management, the agreement establishes joint labor-management committees charged with the mission of planning for coverage of scheduled time off for primary care RNs who triage patient phone […]
Kaiser National Agreement Ratified
Posted on July 23, 2012
It’s official! After 1,500 UNAC/UHCP members came to bargaining and made our voices heard, all our hard work has paid off! Follow the link to read the official notice from the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions that the National Agreement has been ratified and will go into effect on October 1, 2012. We did it!
We Did It–Kaiser Contract Ratified!
Posted on July 19, 2012
At 10 PM on July 18, it became official. UNAC/UHCP members overwhelmingly ratified our Collective Bargaining Agreement with Kaiser, as part of the National Agreement covering 95,000 Kaiser employees across the country.
Stand with Anaheim RNs
Posted on July 3, 2012
Kaiser management, without our input, decided to place all Anaheim Emergency Department RNs on uniform shifts from 8 to 8. For years, UNAC/UHCP members have worked in the Anaheim ED on varied shifts (e.g. some shifts are 3 to 3, 7 to 7, 10 to 10), just like many emergency rooms, to ensure sufficient coverage during peak periods. This unilateral change that Kaiser plans to implement doesn’t work for our patients and doesn’t work for us. We are on the frontlines of patient care. To date, Kaiser has ignored our concerns. We are extremely disappointed Kaiser isn’t working with us collaboratively. Please send a message to Kaiser on our behalf in support of the varied shifts that are critical in emergency care.
Tentative Agreements Reached on First Contracts For SCNSC & KPMWON!
Posted on June 27, 2012
After months of bargaining we won a strong agreement. See the schedule of ratification meetings so you can vote.
“I am proud to be a nurse and a union member who makes a difference.”
Posted on June 26, 2012
“I also learned that the biggest mistake we can make as a union right now is to get comfortable with what we have negotiated at the bargaining table. We must take our unity at the bargaining table back to the kitchen tables. Not only is our own profession highly dependent on each other, but also our neighbors and our communities. We must actively protect the public services on which so many of our neighbors depend. We can start by talking to our friends about what we do.”
Ken Deitz Elected International Vice President at AFSCME Convention
Posted on June 26, 2012
Another big win for UNAC/UHCP as our President, Ken Deitz, RN, is elected to serve as an AFSCME International Vice President. “I am proud to see our president hold a position that will help to influence health care policy in our union and our country,” said Valentina Zamora-Arreola, a UNAC/UHCP delegate to the convention.
Proposed “Temporary Waiver” in Budget Would Waive Staffing Ratios During Meal Breaks
Posted on June 14, 2012
The proposed language would allow hospitals to waive the staffing ratios on all units during meals and breaks. “The UNAC/UHCP, AFSCME legislative team immediately developed a plan to actively oppose the language and to inform the legislators that UNAC/UHCP, AFSCME would never support anything that would threaten the staffing ratios that California Registered Nurses worked so hard to achieve and the patients deserve,” said Barbara Blake, RN, UNAC/UHCP State Secretary/Treasurer. Click here to read UNAC/UHCP’s letter of opposition to the proposed language.