UFCW Local 400 health care professionals working at Kaiser recently ratified a national collective bargaining agreement that increases their wages, and sets standards to improve the quality and safety of health care. “This is a sound agreement that paves the way for our local bargaining with Kaiser Mid-Atlantic that will take place in 2020," said Local 400 Secretary-Treasurer Lavoris “Mikki” Harris. "What’s been most positive about this process is how it has galvanized member activism. There is great energy and a wonderful spirit of participation. That will serve us well in implementing the contract and in improving working conditions for our members.”
The national collective bargaining agreement covers 105,000 Kaiser Permanente employees, including more than 1,000 Local 400 members. OPEIU Local 2 members who work at Kaiser had previously ratified an agreement. For the latest local labor events, go to dclabor.org and click on calendar. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 1825, after eight years and at least 1,000 worker deaths – mostly Irish immigrants – the 350-mile Erie Canal opened, linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. In 1905, over 2 million workers were on strike throughout the Russian Empire. Following the government’s massacre of more than 1,000 workers gathered at the Tsar’s palace in January, a huge wave of strikes erupted, coordinated by workers’ councils. By late December, the military put down what became known as the Russian Revolution of 1905, crushing the strikes and imprisoning the leaders of the workers’ councils. Today’s labor quote is by poet Carl Sandburg: “I am the people – the mob – the crowd – the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.”lick here to edit.
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