4 months after their contract was signed, 12 People Who Clean (PWC) workers are now officially union Hyatt employees. They will now have pension, healthcare, real wages, and rights on the job. Others continue to work for PWC but now earn up to $19 an hour (up from as low as $7.25). For three years, […]
(Hawaii Public Radio – The Conversation) – Eric Gill is Financial Secretary-Treasurer of UNITE HERE! Local 5. Local 5 represents approximately 10,000 workers throughout Hawaii who work in the hospitality, health care and food service industries and is an affiliate of UNITE HERE, an international union that represents over 250,000 workers throughout the U.S. and […]
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii workers organized a one-day work stoppage on November 21, 2013 to protest a variety of initiatives that the state’s largest health care maintenance organization (HMO) is implementing that prevent workers from providing quality care to its patients. Nearly 500 workers from clinics all over Oahu stopped work to support good patient care. […]
(KHON 2) More than 300 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job Thursday. The employees held a rally demanding that the hospital take care of its workers so they can better care for their patients.
(Pacific Business News) – By Jenna Blakely. Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and Unite Here Local 5 are in negotiations for a new agreement that would cover 1,800 of the health-care organization’s 4,500 employees in Hawaii after a year of back-and forth negotiations.
(Honolulu Star-Advertiser) – By Kristen Consillio. More than 300 Kaiser Permanente Hawaii union employees protested for improved work standards this morning at the Moanalua Medical Center.