Saturday
Oct032009
Kaiser pharmacy agreement exposed
Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 10:31PM SEIU recently announced they “saved” 150 pharmacy jobs they had previously agreed to give away. But the deal Kaiser struck with SEIU gives away workers’ security in favor of “flexibility” for management—a concesson Kaiser has been trying to get for years. SEIU had side conversations during bargaining with no workers present. Here’s what SEIU agreed to:
- Up to a full third of the current benefitted Pharmacy employees have to give up their guaranteed hours. This is many more employees than were affected by the job eliminations.
- Current Full Time Employees may be required to take 24+ positions. When the Pharmacy is busy they will work their former full time schedule but when work is slow they can go down to 24 hours a week.
- Pharmacy workers will be required to travel to other facilities.
- Pharmacy workers will have their start times changed whenever it suits the Employer.
- On-call employees won’t be needed as before because the benefitted workers have taken their place. Before, a part-time employee could say no to additional hours. Not anymore.
- The agreement is full of loopholes that are easy for Kaiser to interpret to its advantage—and disputes are not subject to the grievance procedure but are sent to a “committee.”
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