I am pleased to announce that the parties in National Bargaining reached a tentative agreement on a new three year contract early Friday morning.
This agreement includes the complete preservation of all pension, health plan, and retiree medical benefits and includes wage increases for all of our Kaiser Permanente San Diego and California Service Center members. There are no takeaways!
We also agreed to a number of other language and National Agreement improvements.
The primary challenge to our union is not as much a leadership problem as it is a membership problem. Sure, our membership meetings may not be that interesting and may even be frustrating for some, but how would you know? Like most of our membership, I'll bet you've never attended a single meeting! In addition to member apathy, many prefer to tell on their coworkers (union brothers and sisters), rather than talk to them! Recently, I learned that a fellow Steward's advice to a member was to 'tell the union' about the behavior of a fellow member. Her advice is wrong in several ways; you'd tell the boss in order to get someone in trouble (not the union). But, more importantly, instead of advising a member to tell on another member, first, encourage the member to talk to his/her coworker. Unless there's a specific reason that talking with a coworker would be unhelpful to the situation, you should always attempt to afford them the opportunity to address and correct the issue.
p.s. Before you say 'one more negative thing' about our union, try getting involved, attending a few meetings and participating!
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