"The roughly 6,000 health care professionals of the OFNHP are locked in a contract fight with their employer, Kaiser Permanente, the sprawling health care consortium. The mediocrity in question is not that of the staffers themselves; instead, it warns of the impending consequences for staff and patients alike of the workplace stressors to which Kaiser's tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, technicians, and others are systematically subjected."
"In what has become an extended set of pitched battles with Kaiser management, the OFNHP has set out to address some of the most severe crises in nursing and health care - at Kaiser and elsewhere. Pressure from the rank-and-file to confront chronic understaffing, stagnating pay rates, and a loss of control over their schedules and work arrangements has driven the union to place these demands at the forefront in their return to contract bargaining this year."
"The OFNHP is one of the 23 unions that together make up the Alliance of Health Care Unions (AHU), a labor federation that comprises over 60,000 Kaiser workers across California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, Colorado, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. A significant portion of the Alliance membership is bargaining as a single unit, simultaneously negotiating for better wages and conditions at national and local levels."
The Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (OFNHP) represents roughly 6,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers locked in contract negotiations over chronic understaffing, stagnating wages, and loss of scheduling control. OFNHP members warn that workplace stressors threaten both staff wellbeing and patient care. OFNHP belongs to the Alliance of Health Care Unions (AHU), a federation of 23 unions representing over 60,000 Kaiser workers across multiple states, many bargaining as a single unit for national and local improvements. Strike authorization is in place and unions have set an October 14 deadline; failure by management to return to bargaining could trigger a nationwide walkout of more than 40,000 employees.
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