{"id":370935,"date":"2025-12-25T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:35:08","slug":"kaiser-permanente-and-health-care-workers-reach-tentative-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370935\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Permanente and health care workers reach tentative agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tentative agreements focus on market-adjusted wages, improvements to working conditions and staffing standards, and recruitment and retention, the union said.<\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Kaiser Permanente has reached tentative agreements with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/health\/kaiser-healthcare-workers-strike-wage-negotiations-contract-union\/283-20a293a1-6243-44f5-94e3-00f6e3d8cca4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">local unionized health care workers<\/a> from six bargaining units.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP), the union that represents the health care workers, announced the update on Wednesday. OFNHP said the tentative agreements focus on market-adjusted wages, improvements to working conditions and staffing standards, as well as recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reached tentative agreements that include higher pay, stronger staffing standards and a real voice for healthcare professionals in how patient care is delivered. But there is no final agreement until Kaiser comes back to the national table and finishes a fair national contract,&#8221; said OFNHP president Sarina Roher in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A national agreement is required to &#8220;establish across-the-board wage increases for all Alliance workers,&#8221; OFNHP said. When a national agreement is reached, union members will vote to ratify the full package.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to have reached agreements with OFNHP at local bargaining this week,&#8221; Kaiser Permanente said, in part, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The local tentative agreements come after nine months of bargaining and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/kaiser-permanente-health-care-workers-on-pace-to-start-strike-tuesday-morning\/283-ad16fbcc-5f0c-4887-8787-10bc57568489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">strike<\/a>. Roughly 4,000 unionized health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Oregon and southwest Washington walked off the job on Oct. 14 for a five-day strike. It was part of a larger strike that happened in multiple states including in California and Hawaii.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The walkout involved registered nurses, physical therapists, social workers, mental health counselors and lab professionals. In September, 97% of union members voted to authorize the strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tentative agreements focus on market-adjusted wages, improvements to working conditions and staffing standards, and recruitment and retention,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-370935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}