Sunday
Sep132009
Kaiser's layoff deal with SEIU revealed
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 10:20PM SEIU officials signed this layoff agreement with Kaiser in secret, before workers were informed of the planned layoffs. SEIU agreed to set aside the Kaiser contract’s Employment and Income Security Agreement in order to allow the layoffs—and the “Dispute Resolution” language on page five limits grievances to the language of the agreement itself, giving away workers’ ability to enforce their contract.
Download the PDF of the layoff agreement
Here’s a leaflet to share with your co-workers comparing SEIU’s secret deal with the agreements we negotiated democratically when workers were in control of our union:
Download the comparison leaflet
Translation of the above passage: If you don’t like this agreement, too damn bad. The above language limits any grievance to the language of the agreement itself, and completely eviscerates any protection affected employees may have within the contract. In one agreement, SEIU-UHW and KaiPerm have rendered the entire 2005 contract null and void.