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A key Kaiser union campaigned hard to gain a $25 minimum wage for the health care industry’s lowest-paid workers. New deal sets three-year path to it.
The strike by 75,000 workers last week had put Kaiser at the forefront of a growing labor unrest in the healthcare industry, including among employees of pharmacies and other hospital chains like ...
Members are mainly locked in to using Kaiser health workers. Kaiser’s membership dues set it apart from America’s traditional “fee-for-service” health care model, in which a doctor or ...
The workers’ last contract was negotiated in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. The three-day strike last month involved 75,000 workers in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Some 180 ...
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California.Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, the organization was initially established to provide medical services at Kaiser's shipyards, steel mills and other facilities, before being opened to the ...
COBRA does not, unlike other federal statutes such as the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), require the employer to pay for the cost of providing continuation coverage. Instead it allows employees and their dependents to maintain coverage at their own expense by paying the full cost of the premium the employer and the employee previously ...
Costs for employer-paid health insurance are rising rapidly: since 2001, premiums for family coverage have increased 78%, while wages have risen 19% and inflation has risen 17%, according to a 2007 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. [18] Workers with employer-sponsored insurance also contribute; in 2007, the average percentage of premium ...
The union of more than 85,000 healthcare workers approved the four-year contract, effective from Oct. 1 this year, by a margin of 98.5%, the union said. The union and Kaiser Permanente had reached ...