Kaiser Permanente Workers are calling on KP management to recognize the hard work of employees throughout the pandemic by providing all Coalition union members with a full Profit-Sharing Program bonus payout. Read their message below. 

OPEIU is now accepting applications for the 2022 John Kelly Labor Studies and the Howard Coughlin Memorial Scholarships! The application deadline for both scholarships is March 31, 2022. Click the link below to learn more about the rules and regulations.

Register now for the upcoming quarterly membership meeting on January 4, 2022 at 5:30 PM EST. You must pre-register for the meeting on Zoom to receive the link. Click the button below to pre-register, or click this link! Please be sure to register with your PERSONAL EMAIL - we cannot send minutes to work email addresses. We look forward to seeing everyone soon!

JOINT STATEMENT
December 16, 2021
MADRE Staff and Leadership Work Together to Promote Feminist Values in the Workplace
Today, MADRE employees alongside MADRE’s executive director and board are pleased to announce the formation of a staff union MADRE Staff United. Together, we are wholeheartedly committed to working to strengthen MADRE’s mission to advance human rights and social justice by meeting urgent needs in communities and creating lasting solutions to the crises of our time.​

On December 16, 2021, an overwhelming majority of employees at The Public Interest Network moved forward in requesting voluntary recognition with OPEIU Local 2. Led by our longtime ally Senator Sherrod Brown, 14 Senators wrote a letter to TPIN President Doug Phelps urging the organization to respect the request of its staff to proceed with a third-party card check.  Read the letter below, and check out The Public Interest Union on Twitter and at their website. 

These employees have been organizing for nearly two years to create an intentional and unbreakable movement to strenghten the organization and to earn a seat at the table. 

OPEIU members are entitled to a number of benefits, from free towing to free college and student loan debt reduction. Check out the full benefits below. 

OPEIU Local 2 members at Kaiser Permanente are standing in solidarity with their unions siblings on the West Coast who are striking over the organization's continued prioritization of profits over patients. We will not stand to see KP push low wages for new hires and continue to ignore short staffing in centers! These policies are bad for workers AND bad for patients. 

Today, Defenders of Wildlife staff overwhelmingly won their union in a National Labor Relations Board election, with 70-5 votes in favor of the union. The roughly-100 workers will soon begin bargaining their first contract, after electing their colleagues into bargaining committee positions. Welcome to OPEIU, Defenders of Wildlife staff!

The agreement between Kaiser and the Alliance of Healthcare Unions, other frontline workers like us, will expire in two weeks. Kaiser is pushing an array of cuts for those workers, most importantly lower wage rates for new hires— a first step to reducing pay for all of us. As part of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente unions, we stand with Alliance workers at Kaiser in refusing to accept lower wages or benefit reductions. Click read more for full details. 

On August 13-14, more than 200 union members nationwide gathered virtually for the annual UnionDelegates Conference (UDC). Member leaders walked away empowered and mobilized, armed with strategies and tools to advance our Coalition unions’ interests and address critical issues.

Leaders also discussed the tactic's we're seeing Kaiser Permanente employ against Alliance members, who they've been bargaining with for three months. Read the full report below.