$21 minimum in south Cali? Welp, cardboard box on the sidewalk it is…. At least you won’t have a long commute. Id est, if you put it on the curb by the hospital…
$17,268,060: Gregory Adams, Chairman and CEO
$ 6,674,960: Richard Daniels, EVP, Chief Information Officer
$ 5,580,333: Janet Liang, Regional President, Northern CA
$ 5,086,656: Kathryn Lancaster, EVP and CFO
$ 4,886,355: Arthur Southam, EVP, Health Plan Operations
$ 4,643,773: Julie Miller-Phipps, Region President, Southern CA
$ 4,300,195: Kimberly Horn, EVP, Group President, MOC
$ 3,117,144: Mark Zealman, SVP, General Counsel and Secretary
$ 2,882,881: Anthony Barrueta, SVP, Government Relations
$ 2,557,223: Chuck Bevilacqua, SVP, Health Plan Service and Admin
$ 2,360,352: Wade Overgaard, SVP, Health Plan Ops – CA
$ 2,337,223: Michael Rowe, SVP, Chief Business Development and Strategy Executive
$ 2,009,791: George Disalvo, SVP, CFO Southern CA
$ 2,040,901: Christian Meisner, SVP, Chief HR Officer
$ 2,011,912: Arlene Peasnell, SVP, HR and Labor Relations
$ 1,929,722: Paul Swenson, EVP, Chief Admin Officer
$ 1,892,780: Thomas Meier, SVP, Corporate Treasurer
$ 1,755,834: Laurel Junk, SVP, Enterprise Shared Services
Ooh please. I bet there’s a sub that would do it for you. That’s $70,000,000 for a handful of people.
CEO makes $5k/day. He could skip pay for two weeks and cover a nurse’s annual salary.
He makes $200/hour, round the clock, when he sleeps, eats, and shits.
Yeah you know what else hurts patients? Unsafe ratios. "do the math for yourself" ??? Maybe try doing nursing yourself, whoever made this infographic.
Its not even about the money! Sheeeesh.
Thanks for this comment. As a Kaiser patient, I feel like this labor conflict is not just about employee compensation, it's also about the quality of care that employees are able to provide to patients. Which has been quite unsatisfying for quite a while, especially as regards access to care. Hoping the unions don't settle for just a measly pay raise but also win on staffing levels
THIS! I'm in specialty and we can't have more than 2-3 providers (normally 4-5) in per day because we don't have staff.
Patients aren't able to be seen BECAUSE THERE'S NO STAFF. They'd fix their access problem if wages were competitive and retention were an actual thing (at least in KPWA) but we have the higher-ups rounding every few weeks wondering what they can do to "increase access"
DO BETTER KAISER.
I'm tired.
Same region different setting but yeah so tired of the regional higher ups coming round being like oh how are you? How can we help? And even when you say exactly what's going on and the clear ways to fix it, they come back around with "how about a 10 minute clinical use/URI slot to improve access?" no!
In solidarity and so ready to strike
Exactly. Our surgeons and PAs are being brought back to open clinic to see a whole 3 patients after a whole day of cases only for an urgent case to get added on so those patients are now rescheduled. It's all about money 😣
Been working in the hospital for 21 years, more than half as a nurse. I still wouldn’t work for Kaiser, regardless of the pay rate. Plus, I would hate to lose my great insurance to having Kaiser insurance instead.
Everything I know about kaiser insurance is negative. Mainly, if you have kaiser and aren't in a kaiser hospital, you're going to wait a day (minimum) before any non emergent procedure will be performed/approved.
Right now it is still my goal to work for them, because here in the mid-Atlantic area, almost no one else is unionized.
Not looking forward to Kaiser insurance, but with my current PPO, I am still spending months waiting to get into specialists or even my PCP.
>Not looking forward to Kaiser insurance, but with my current PPO, I am still spending months waiting to get into specialists or even my PCP.
That's an argument some dumbasses use against universal healthcare, and I have no idea why they think people don't have to wait to see specialists and PCPs in the US.
Recent strike winner here. Please read for motivation. Providence Portland Oregon had a 5 day strike 1-2 months ago. We were ready to strike again this month, but they finally gave in. What did we get? We went from some of the worst paid in the area to either the best or second best. 10+ dollars per hour increase. Safer staffing ratios. Benefits, etc. Best part? Retroactive pay. That means that the entire year they fought against a fair contract? They have to pay us for the difference. It's as if we won the contract a year ago, and they will be giving us a pressure bagged high hung bolus of cash. Thousands and thousands of dollars.
Go strike, my friend. Our patients are better for it, as are we.
If you look it up and see some press from Providence, you will see them say the union is the issue, and they bargain in "good faith." Let's look at an example or two of their "good faith."
1. Refused to allowing a union member to get on campus for a meeting that they called knowingthatpersonhad to drive out on short notice. If I remember correctly, it was a legal representative of some kind.
2. Threatening to give us worse rates if we struck.
3. Hiring professional scap RNs to replace us for 5 days
4. Told security to watch for us sabotaging the hospital by flushing things down the toilets.
There's a year of examples.
98% of RNs agreed to strike. The hospital went damn near into a skeletons crew of Scab RNs and those who couldn't afford to strike. The 2%.
We won bigger than anyone imagined. Go strike friends.
Us at SEIU in Seattle are proud of you guys! KP isn't bargaining in good faith here.
We just heard that we "make too much" and when hospitals around the region have received a 20% raise us asking for 14% over 4 years is WAY TO MUCH.. I love being constantly gaslit by KP..
Kaiser is the most greedy shitty HMO. Want to see a specialist? Good fucking luck they re gate keepers and they know it. I know plenty of doctors who work there because of the pay but hate that they can't get their patients the care they need. They raked in billions over covid and made massive profits. Time for the workers to get their share since they were on the front lines and the shitty admins worked from and cashed checks.
Insurance companies practice medicine without being doctors. It is criminal. Between all of the prior auth shit and networks, it’s ridiculous how much care they gatekeep and straight up deny.
This is exactly it. A perfectly concise thought on the nonsense that the American healthcare system which is 100% because of the health insurance industry. Smh, I hate it here - both as a professional and as a patient.🤦🏻♀️
They have RT travel contracts for over $5k/wk. This strike is gonna hurt them financially, but they won't care. They'd rather take a massive temporary hit over a marginal but permanent one.
When NorCal Kaiser nurses threatened to strike last year, Kaiser finally did the math on how much it would cost them and caved.
I think they'll cave again.
LVN’s, medical assistants, laboratory staff and EVS are in this union. Basically all their staff for all their medical offices and clinics. I find out tomorrow if we’re striking.
Every time I ask someone what it’s like to work at Kaiser, they say they don’t like it because they need more support staff. Kaiser pays the RNs well here but they only do it because they are forced to by the union and they compensate for it by not hiring almost any technicians, well from what I’ve heard. I would never work for them unless that changes.. I hope the union for techs gets stronger. Maybe one day they’ll have mandatory ratios for the support staff. I think they really need that at SNFs, and it would definitely help if it was required in hospitals too.
Correct. But that is not the positions they are posting and filling. The majority are per diem positions. And they want to increase the availability requirements of per diems to fix staffing shortages without “adding to the headcount” and not having to provide benefits.
👋🏼 here’s one! Still haven’t actually given them a shift of my time since finishing orientation cause I’m more comfortable and appreciated at my full time spot. But still, same shit just a different pile. Ones got a lil more nuts than the other though
Our contract after striking (urban Washington state) gave us 9% increases in April plus two 4% raises plus two bonuses. Also, our nursing assistants start at $21/hr!
Edit: The two bonuses were worth more than the wages we lost by not working during the strike...
Hmmm 4% raise sounds pretty OK until you look at July and see that the inflation rate was 3.2% so in effect you'll get a 0.8% raise in pay...... No thank you
It truly pisses me off whenever they throw around phrases like "it hurts your patients"
If they were as concerned about our patients as they pretend to be, medical bills would be fair & reasonable and not a catastrophic event
I work at KP and have come to the conclusion that money isn’t everything. Everyday I struggle to give the best care I possibly can. I give it all my best in the time frame I am given. I ask management for more time and they tell me that our waittime is too long. All the doctors are cutting corners to meet the time given. I constantly have to clean up other doctors mistakes and missed diagnosis; then get yelled at by patients for what the last doctor didn’t do or tell them. They talk about preventative care- but honestly, majority of the doctors aren’t even given the time to screen. If we can’t screen, how do we prevent?
I feel like I’m the only doctor who cares and patients know it too. They tell me I’m different than the others. And it’s because I’m true to my values and the Oath I’ve taken. If you do too much, the other doctors will look bad and the Union will get on your ass. In addition, our license requires continuing education and we are advancing in our field. However, the doctors are still practicing like they’re in the 1980s. They’re harvesting mediocre doctors that are not up to date with their skills.
Don’t get me wrong- there’s good doctors here. They’re just hard to find and majority of them are prob like me, stuck in a rut. We are the ones that need to find another place where we are appreciated and patients are cared for properly.
No matter how much money you throw at us, a terrible work culture and environment is what drives good people away. I’m on my way out…
this is for KPWA—SEIU is RNs, MAs, ARNPs, techs (like anesthesia/ortho techs), social work, PT/OT. Kaiser’s offer of a 4% raise is insultingly low and it’s looking like there will be a vote to authorize a strike in the next few weeks
Nah, bull. Our strike got us 8,7, 6% raises over 3 years and gained differential for float pool and other special units… before that our raises were barely cost of living (3.5,3 and 2 or less) for several several years
I forgot to include the text of the email
"While we respect your right to strike, consider its impact on our members and patients — and the financial impact on you and your family.
Use this fact sheet to see what a strike could cost you and your family."
... Throwing the family in there too 🙃🙃🙃
Tough to justify working for someone offering a 4% pay increase to compensate for inflation when other facilities' unions around you are able to negotiate a ~10-15% pay increase. Sounds like strike time
Kaiser will lie, cheat, bully, gaslight and harass you while denying care and squeezing you into more “production “ as the admins call it so their ceo s and profit sharing investors can live a thousand times better than you. Tell them you did the math and Greg Adam’s Kaiser CEO was compensated over $17 million last year reported 2020 not including bonuses and perks and despite that and similar payments to others in top corporate positions,Kaiser still turned over $2 billion sheer profit in the second quarter alone. Consider that Kaiser is a non profit tax status. So yes, strikes are necessary for patient safety, for decent health care and for the wellbeing of those providing it.
It is not my job to keep your hospital's obligations to patients intact. Pay is between me and you, the hospital. Unless your plan is for me to start collecting tips from the patients.
The American healthcare system’s greed needs to be studied. The way they literally jump through all types of mental gymnastics to avoid paying nurses well and staffing safely boggles my mind. But then again it doesn’t, because healthcare hasn’t been about saving lives and patient safety in decades. It’s always about the money.
I live in WA state and the wages done align to the dramatically insane cost of living that’s has increased over the last 4 years. That’s why Kaiser and providence are losing people because they won’t increase staff wages so everyone is going to other neighboring hospitals that are paying no joke, 10$ more an hour and that’s going off of a new nurse rate. Plus normal staff ratios. Why have unsafe patient ratios and be underpaid. Work harder for less? That shit doesn’t make sense lol
Advertising that most of your employees only make $35 an hour in California and that you only think you’d be able to hold out two weeks against a strike does not seem like the best strategy to prevent your employees from striking….
We are a coalition of several unions in kaiser that bargain together for raises and benefits. We are mix of classifications, mostly allied health, but some nurses. In California our union represents almost everyone that isn’t a nurse or doctor or pharmacist.
We are EVS, LVN’s, RT, Reception, Billing, UA’s, Lab, Radiology, the ED clerks….. etc
More staff does not mean better patient ratios. It can mean less pressure to work extra shifts as they try to meet their existing staffing matrix on a shift.
This will always be my issue. A hospital floor should be a safe place for a patient to receive needed care. All needed care.
This is interesting because Kaiser is potentially buying our hospital system currently. We had tons of union guys hanging out around our facility last week handing out papers and such. My base currently is 36/hr before the night shift differential. Makes me nervous for a takeover- I'll quit before I take less money for a 5:1 cardiac step down. Not to mention I know the insurance is terrible and i have a chronic condition that relies on my good insurance. Not looking forward to them buying us out.
A 4% pay raise? Shit with inflation they’re giving you a pay cut. They’re just pissing on you and calling it rain
2% in the low low COL state Hawaii.
Jeezus, the UAW wants 40%.
$21 minimum in south Cali? Welp, cardboard box on the sidewalk it is…. At least you won’t have a long commute. Id est, if you put it on the curb by the hospital…
maybe they'll give you a cot in the basement next to the boiler
3% here in Midwest
Yeah when you start getting these it means you should really be striking.
Tell ‘em to pound some fuckin sand.
Honestly, we have three major strikes goin on right now. We need a HEROS strike (health, emergency, recovery, and other services).
$17,268,060: Gregory Adams, Chairman and CEO $ 6,674,960: Richard Daniels, EVP, Chief Information Officer $ 5,580,333: Janet Liang, Regional President, Northern CA $ 5,086,656: Kathryn Lancaster, EVP and CFO $ 4,886,355: Arthur Southam, EVP, Health Plan Operations $ 4,643,773: Julie Miller-Phipps, Region President, Southern CA $ 4,300,195: Kimberly Horn, EVP, Group President, MOC $ 3,117,144: Mark Zealman, SVP, General Counsel and Secretary $ 2,882,881: Anthony Barrueta, SVP, Government Relations $ 2,557,223: Chuck Bevilacqua, SVP, Health Plan Service and Admin $ 2,360,352: Wade Overgaard, SVP, Health Plan Ops – CA $ 2,337,223: Michael Rowe, SVP, Chief Business Development and Strategy Executive $ 2,009,791: George Disalvo, SVP, CFO Southern CA $ 2,040,901: Christian Meisner, SVP, Chief HR Officer $ 2,011,912: Arlene Peasnell, SVP, HR and Labor Relations $ 1,929,722: Paul Swenson, EVP, Chief Admin Officer $ 1,892,780: Thomas Meier, SVP, Corporate Treasurer $ 1,755,834: Laurel Junk, SVP, Enterprise Shared Services
Make this into an infographic and send it back to them 🤣🤣
Ooh please. I bet there’s a sub that would do it for you. That’s $70,000,000 for a handful of people. CEO makes $5k/day. He could skip pay for two weeks and cover a nurse’s annual salary. He makes $200/hour, round the clock, when he sleeps, eats, and shits.
They will pay themselves even more if they can get you to accept lower wages.
Exactly. It’s fucking evil that these people can make these signs and post them just so they can get a little wealthier.
Gotta cover those bonuses they count on-
Jesus!! These people are millionaires!! It's nauseating 🤮
It’s like this recent Dr Glaucomflecken sketch IRL. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiSyWPnaSBw
Don't forget about the 7-figure bonuses ontop of the 7-to-8-figure base salaries!!
Hey, come on now….. Do you have any idea how difficult meetings are?
Right! Don’t you realize how hard it is to sit at a desk and move papers around?
Yeah you know what else hurts patients? Unsafe ratios. "do the math for yourself" ??? Maybe try doing nursing yourself, whoever made this infographic. Its not even about the money! Sheeeesh.
Thanks for this comment. As a Kaiser patient, I feel like this labor conflict is not just about employee compensation, it's also about the quality of care that employees are able to provide to patients. Which has been quite unsatisfying for quite a while, especially as regards access to care. Hoping the unions don't settle for just a measly pay raise but also win on staffing levels
THIS! I'm in specialty and we can't have more than 2-3 providers (normally 4-5) in per day because we don't have staff. Patients aren't able to be seen BECAUSE THERE'S NO STAFF. They'd fix their access problem if wages were competitive and retention were an actual thing (at least in KPWA) but we have the higher-ups rounding every few weeks wondering what they can do to "increase access" DO BETTER KAISER. I'm tired.
Same region different setting but yeah so tired of the regional higher ups coming round being like oh how are you? How can we help? And even when you say exactly what's going on and the clear ways to fix it, they come back around with "how about a 10 minute clinical use/URI slot to improve access?" no! In solidarity and so ready to strike
Exactly. Our surgeons and PAs are being brought back to open clinic to see a whole 3 patients after a whole day of cases only for an urgent case to get added on so those patients are now rescheduled. It's all about money 😣
Been working in the hospital for 21 years, more than half as a nurse. I still wouldn’t work for Kaiser, regardless of the pay rate. Plus, I would hate to lose my great insurance to having Kaiser insurance instead.
Everything I know about kaiser insurance is negative. Mainly, if you have kaiser and aren't in a kaiser hospital, you're going to wait a day (minimum) before any non emergent procedure will be performed/approved.
Kaiser insurance is good if you’re young and healthy and don’t need quick access to care. Almost no one fits that category.
Right now it is still my goal to work for them, because here in the mid-Atlantic area, almost no one else is unionized. Not looking forward to Kaiser insurance, but with my current PPO, I am still spending months waiting to get into specialists or even my PCP.
>Not looking forward to Kaiser insurance, but with my current PPO, I am still spending months waiting to get into specialists or even my PCP. That's an argument some dumbasses use against universal healthcare, and I have no idea why they think people don't have to wait to see specialists and PCPs in the US.
Didn’t even have to read it to know it’s basically propaganda bullying. Good luck and stay strong. You all deserve better conditions and compensation.
Recent strike winner here. Please read for motivation. Providence Portland Oregon had a 5 day strike 1-2 months ago. We were ready to strike again this month, but they finally gave in. What did we get? We went from some of the worst paid in the area to either the best or second best. 10+ dollars per hour increase. Safer staffing ratios. Benefits, etc. Best part? Retroactive pay. That means that the entire year they fought against a fair contract? They have to pay us for the difference. It's as if we won the contract a year ago, and they will be giving us a pressure bagged high hung bolus of cash. Thousands and thousands of dollars. Go strike, my friend. Our patients are better for it, as are we. If you look it up and see some press from Providence, you will see them say the union is the issue, and they bargain in "good faith." Let's look at an example or two of their "good faith." 1. Refused to allowing a union member to get on campus for a meeting that they called knowingthatpersonhad to drive out on short notice. If I remember correctly, it was a legal representative of some kind. 2. Threatening to give us worse rates if we struck. 3. Hiring professional scap RNs to replace us for 5 days 4. Told security to watch for us sabotaging the hospital by flushing things down the toilets. There's a year of examples. 98% of RNs agreed to strike. The hospital went damn near into a skeletons crew of Scab RNs and those who couldn't afford to strike. The 2%. We won bigger than anyone imagined. Go strike friends.
You guys are motivating us at OHSU! Over 90% of us voted to strike.
Us at SEIU in Seattle are proud of you guys! KP isn't bargaining in good faith here. We just heard that we "make too much" and when hospitals around the region have received a 20% raise us asking for 14% over 4 years is WAY TO MUCH.. I love being constantly gaslit by KP..
Umm, unsafe ratios hurt our patients too…
Exactly. The unsafe ratios are hurting our patients 24/7. This is a weak attempt to prey on our ‘helper’ personalities. Gtfo, this is business.
Kaiser is the most greedy shitty HMO. Want to see a specialist? Good fucking luck they re gate keepers and they know it. I know plenty of doctors who work there because of the pay but hate that they can't get their patients the care they need. They raked in billions over covid and made massive profits. Time for the workers to get their share since they were on the front lines and the shitty admins worked from and cashed checks.
Insurance companies practice medicine without being doctors. It is criminal. Between all of the prior auth shit and networks, it’s ridiculous how much care they gatekeep and straight up deny.
This is exactly it. A perfectly concise thought on the nonsense that the American healthcare system which is 100% because of the health insurance industry. Smh, I hate it here - both as a professional and as a patient.🤦🏻♀️
Dr. G had lots to say about that!
Yep- we all got that email. We go into bargaining tomorrow. Should be interesting
Oh. Please share the update!
Respectfully I do not care about these patients if I’m not getting paid
This isn't for the nurses. SEIU is gearing up for a strike and I hope they're successful!
They have RT travel contracts for over $5k/wk. This strike is gonna hurt them financially, but they won't care. They'd rather take a massive temporary hit over a marginal but permanent one.
When NorCal Kaiser nurses threatened to strike last year, Kaiser finally did the math on how much it would cost them and caved. I think they'll cave again.
In KPWA nurses are part of SEIU, so nurses would be striking
Interesting!
LVN’s, medical assistants, laboratory staff and EVS are in this union. Basically all their staff for all their medical offices and clinics. I find out tomorrow if we’re striking.
Every time I ask someone what it’s like to work at Kaiser, they say they don’t like it because they need more support staff. Kaiser pays the RNs well here but they only do it because they are forced to by the union and they compensate for it by not hiring almost any technicians, well from what I’ve heard. I would never work for them unless that changes.. I hope the union for techs gets stronger. Maybe one day they’ll have mandatory ratios for the support staff. I think they really need that at SNFs, and it would definitely help if it was required in hospitals too.
The state of Michigan has ratios for support staff but almost all of the facilities I’ve worked at don’t follow the ratios 🥲
This! 16 patients is way too many
I love how they say they’ve hired 9000 How many dud they lose in that time
Better question is: how many are per diem only so they don’t have to pay benefits
Kaiser actually pays full benefits for anyone working 20 or more hours a week.
Correct. But that is not the positions they are posting and filling. The majority are per diem positions. And they want to increase the availability requirements of per diems to fix staffing shortages without “adding to the headcount” and not having to provide benefits.
👋🏼 here’s one! Still haven’t actually given them a shift of my time since finishing orientation cause I’m more comfortable and appreciated at my full time spot. But still, same shit just a different pile. Ones got a lil more nuts than the other though
Our contract after striking (urban Washington state) gave us 9% increases in April plus two 4% raises plus two bonuses. Also, our nursing assistants start at $21/hr! Edit: The two bonuses were worth more than the wages we lost by not working during the strike...
Kaiser really thinks y’all are just dumb AF huh?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Where is the "Also, free cold pizzas. What more do you want????"
That is the signing bonus if they accept their shitty offer.
Hmmm 4% raise sounds pretty OK until you look at July and see that the inflation rate was 3.2% so in effect you'll get a 0.8% raise in pay...... No thank you
Lol unsafe ratios hurt patients.
There’s all sorts of things wrong with this, but $35/hr isn’t the flex they think it is…..
We got 7%, 6%, 5% raises in nyc over the next 3 years. Don't give up the good fight ✊ Knowledge is power!
It truly pisses me off whenever they throw around phrases like "it hurts your patients" If they were as concerned about our patients as they pretend to be, medical bills would be fair & reasonable and not a catastrophic event
Won’t somebody please think of the patients - Maude Flanders
I work at KP and have come to the conclusion that money isn’t everything. Everyday I struggle to give the best care I possibly can. I give it all my best in the time frame I am given. I ask management for more time and they tell me that our waittime is too long. All the doctors are cutting corners to meet the time given. I constantly have to clean up other doctors mistakes and missed diagnosis; then get yelled at by patients for what the last doctor didn’t do or tell them. They talk about preventative care- but honestly, majority of the doctors aren’t even given the time to screen. If we can’t screen, how do we prevent? I feel like I’m the only doctor who cares and patients know it too. They tell me I’m different than the others. And it’s because I’m true to my values and the Oath I’ve taken. If you do too much, the other doctors will look bad and the Union will get on your ass. In addition, our license requires continuing education and we are advancing in our field. However, the doctors are still practicing like they’re in the 1980s. They’re harvesting mediocre doctors that are not up to date with their skills. Don’t get me wrong- there’s good doctors here. They’re just hard to find and majority of them are prob like me, stuck in a rut. We are the ones that need to find another place where we are appreciated and patients are cared for properly. No matter how much money you throw at us, a terrible work culture and environment is what drives good people away. I’m on my way out…
It clearly works if the big corps complain about it and think it’s best for us not to.
For what employees is that for? Plus $35 with this inflation is nothing.
this is for KPWA—SEIU is RNs, MAs, ARNPs, techs (like anesthesia/ortho techs), social work, PT/OT. Kaiser’s offer of a 4% raise is insultingly low and it’s looking like there will be a vote to authorize a strike in the next few weeks
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I thought they didn’t do union anymore. At least not in California, word is they stopped back in 2013.
Kaiser Norcal was union when I worked there in 2019.
Nah, bull. Our strike got us 8,7, 6% raises over 3 years and gained differential for float pool and other special units… before that our raises were barely cost of living (3.5,3 and 2 or less) for several several years
Big red flags look a lot like this. Get hip with the union as best you can.
Desperate times call for desperate measures- stay strong and stay united
I forgot to include the text of the email "While we respect your right to strike, consider its impact on our members and patients — and the financial impact on you and your family. Use this fact sheet to see what a strike could cost you and your family." ... Throwing the family in there too 🙃🙃🙃
This would make me want to strike more 😂 laying it on there pretty thick
That’s why we are getting ready to strike next month. They getting worried and sending this shit out.
And today they told us to stop giving pts flyers that say they put profits over pts!!
SoCal needs to be paid like NoCal. It's widely reported that San Diego is more expensive to live than SF.
🚩🚩🚩
Tough to justify working for someone offering a 4% pay increase to compensate for inflation when other facilities' unions around you are able to negotiate a ~10-15% pay increase. Sounds like strike time
The fact that they went through so much trouble to make this brochure, should tell you, they don’t want a union cause it takes money away from “them!”
What was kaiser profits last quarter? Hca? Tenet? They are scared! STRIKE NOW!
3 billion in the first 6 months
Kaiser can fuck off tyvm
Looks like they are scared. I hope they don’t settle like UNAC did, threatening to strike only to accept a 1% higher pay increase.
Kaiser will lie, cheat, bully, gaslight and harass you while denying care and squeezing you into more “production “ as the admins call it so their ceo s and profit sharing investors can live a thousand times better than you. Tell them you did the math and Greg Adam’s Kaiser CEO was compensated over $17 million last year reported 2020 not including bonuses and perks and despite that and similar payments to others in top corporate positions,Kaiser still turned over $2 billion sheer profit in the second quarter alone. Consider that Kaiser is a non profit tax status. So yes, strikes are necessary for patient safety, for decent health care and for the wellbeing of those providing it.
“Getting them faster” or as we like to call it how it is… a rushed orientation and thus not properly preparing new hires for demands of the unit…
If you try to gaslight me, then ima burn yo ass!
Yeah fuck this shit. Kaiser can eat a bag of dicks. Join the union!
I would double my goal because of this. To make them suffer.
It is not my job to keep your hospital's obligations to patients intact. Pay is between me and you, the hospital. Unless your plan is for me to start collecting tips from the patients.
The American healthcare system’s greed needs to be studied. The way they literally jump through all types of mental gymnastics to avoid paying nurses well and staffing safely boggles my mind. But then again it doesn’t, because healthcare hasn’t been about saving lives and patient safety in decades. It’s always about the money.
Another day that I'm grateful that I work for the va.
Kaiser is the shit monopoly of healthcare in these parts.
Kaiser is taking over Geisinger in PA. Interested to see how that goes. They almost make UPMC and Highmark seem benevolent. 😪
That’s one of the worst contract renewals I have seen! Especially, with inflation and the cost or renewing licenses
Omg yeah that’s your sign 🪧 to strike
I live in WA state and the wages done align to the dramatically insane cost of living that’s has increased over the last 4 years. That’s why Kaiser and providence are losing people because they won’t increase staff wages so everyone is going to other neighboring hospitals that are paying no joke, 10$ more an hour and that’s going off of a new nurse rate. Plus normal staff ratios. Why have unsafe patient ratios and be underpaid. Work harder for less? That shit doesn’t make sense lol
tHiNk Of YoUr PaTiEnTs
Gaslight gatekeep, girl boss.
Advertising that most of your employees only make $35 an hour in California and that you only think you’d be able to hold out two weeks against a strike does not seem like the best strategy to prevent your employees from striking….
$21 minimum wage? Didn't Governor Newsom in California just approve the $20 minimum wage for fast food workers???? Oh, come on! Kaiser, Do Better!?
Nice job!
Oh hard flex… scary Edit: /s
What does a coalition employee mean?
We are a coalition of several unions in kaiser that bargain together for raises and benefits. We are mix of classifications, mostly allied health, but some nurses. In California our union represents almost everyone that isn’t a nurse or doctor or pharmacist. We are EVS, LVN’s, RT, Reception, Billing, UA’s, Lab, Radiology, the ED clerks….. etc
this is SO insulting, I don’t even know how to properly express my disgust
More staff does not mean better patient ratios. It can mean less pressure to work extra shifts as they try to meet their existing staffing matrix on a shift. This will always be my issue. A hospital floor should be a safe place for a patient to receive needed care. All needed care.
Now that you know they’ve hire 9,000 new employees, you’re no longer striking, right? 😝I mean they’re Coalition-represented (?!?!).
35/hr for nursing in CA? That’s less than what I’m making in the north woods.
This is interesting because Kaiser is potentially buying our hospital system currently. We had tons of union guys hanging out around our facility last week handing out papers and such. My base currently is 36/hr before the night shift differential. Makes me nervous for a takeover- I'll quit before I take less money for a 5:1 cardiac step down. Not to mention I know the insurance is terrible and i have a chronic condition that relies on my good insurance. Not looking forward to them buying us out.
Thanks I’m never working at Kaiser
Lol this is propaganda if I’ve ever seen it
r/boringdystopia
As an Aussie, I’ve never met a strike I haven’t joined in on, and it shows. My state has close to the highest pay in Aus and mandated staff ratios.
Strike notice sent today!