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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 17:33 |
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This is Patt Gibbs, Executive Director for Hawaii Nurses Association. HNA and the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific have reached a tentative agreement.
We are pleased to announce that ratification meetings will be held commencing tomorrow, Tuesday, February 24th. We are very proud of our HNA RN's and their negotiating team and congratulations to all of you. Please check the website for more details concerning the dates, times, and locations of the ratification meetings.
Attention Kaiser Permanente Hawaii nurses. We have posted on the Kaiser page, a letter from myself, as well as a list of forum meeting dates and times that are being conducted by Kaiser Management. We encourage all Kaiser nurses to attend one of these important meetings.
Molokai General, RN, Gail Crabbe, and member of the HNA Board of Directors, will be an HNA featured speaker at the National Labor Assembly in Washington D.C. for our national union, United American Nurses.
We're proud of Gail because she not only comes from one of our smaller facilities from the state of Hawaii but she also comes from one of the neighbor islands.
Congratulations Gail, we‘re proud of you and we know all HNA members are.
Also, UAN has elected HNA Treasurer, Elayne Schwartz, to be one of our Credentialing Committee members for the NLA National Convention. HNA is very proud and excited about this election because all four of HNA's officers will be present at this year's important meeting in Washington DC. |
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:52 |
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Kaiser Nurses Ratify Agreement
Aloha, Today is Feb. 14 and this is Patt Gibbs, Executive Director for the HNA. I am very pleased to announce that late last night on February 13, our Kaiser Permanente Hawaii nurses represented by the Hawaii Nurses Association delivered an overwhelming yes vote in favor of the tentative agreement reached by the parties at the end of January. This represents a major achievement for HNA because an important provision in this agreement is a transition into the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, a historic move by the union and by Kaiser here in Hawaii. The coalition has a master agreement that covers all mainland Kaiser facilities.
And I want to applaud this historic moment and to personally thank the following nurse negotiators for their hard work, long hours, perseverance and vision in bringing about this great success. They are Marina Robinson, RN, Terry Carvalho-Luke, RN, Ravada Benjamin, RN, Robin Tanner, and RN. and Jane Hamel, RN.
A special thanks to Walter Allen and Tanya Wallace from the National Coalition and to
HNA Labor Relations Specialist, Rosalynn Perez.
HNA looks forward to sharing in the privileges and obligations of the Labor Management Partnership with Kaiser to improve the quality of healthcare for Kaiser members.
The three-year local agreement is retroactive to December 1, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2011.
Additionally a very very special thanks and a big thank you I should say to our Kaiser nurses who were overwhelmingly supportive of their union during the bargaining and ratification period. I look forward to working with many of you who have stepped up and volunteered to be actively involved in the Labor Management Partnership.
Again this is a historic moment for Kaiser, for Kaiser nurses, and for HNA. |
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Friday, 30 January 2009 18:08 |
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HNA MAKES HISTORY
We are pleased to announce that on January 29, 2009, HNA- Kaiser Nurses and KPHI have reached a tentative agreement on both the local contract and on their first contract with the Kaiser Coalition and the Labor Management Partnership.
We join ranks with the more than 92,000 Kaiser Union Members in partnership with management to create the best place to receive care and the best place to work in Hawaii.
Ratification and details of the agreement will take place at all Kaiser facilities beginning Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
For updates check your mail, or the Hotline at 537-2833 or log on to the HNA website. |
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009 10:35 |
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Kaiser Bargaining News
Hello HNA Kaiser Members, the date of this recording is January 13, 2009. My name is Ravada Benjamin, I am one of the Nurse Negotiators at Kaiser Permanente and I am providing you with your bargaining update.
Due to the unfortunate death in the family of one of our team negotiators, we have concluded that it is in the best interest of all Kaiser Permanente Nurses to extend our contract until January 31, 2009. Because we are at a critical juncture and feel strongly that we need all Negotiating Team Members present to get the best contract for our membership, we will resume bargaining on January 26 - Jan 30th.
In the meantime your team is conducting comparison studies of all of island hospital benefits and wages. Further, we are meeting with a National Media consultant to discuss our options to better inform our HNA membership and the community of our status in this bargaining progress. Your continued support and patience through this lengthy process is essential to everyone's success.
For further updates please continue to visit the HNA website at www.hawaiinurses.org or call this hotline. |
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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:00 |
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ALOHA., TODAY IS DECEMBER 24, 2008 AND THIS IS TERI LUKE, SHOP STEWARD FOR KAISER WITH A NEGOTIATIONS UPDATE. THIS MESSAGE IS SPECIFICALLY FOR OUR HNA KAISER NURSES. IF YOU WANT INFORMATION ABOUT ANOTHER FACILITY CHECK THE HNA WEBSITE AT WWW.HAWAIINURSES.ORG.
YOUR KAISER NURSE NEGOTIATORS WILL BE MEETING AT HNA HEADQUARTERS ON DECEMBER 30, 2008 ALONG WITH HNA OFFICER’S LUANNE LONG, JOAN CRAFT AND HNA’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PATT GIBBS. THIS IS AN INTERNAL NEGOTIATIONS MEETING TO DISCUSS THE UPCOMING CONTINUATION OF THE JOINT BARGAINING SESSIONS. AN INTERNAL TEAM MEETING WITH KAISER COALITION REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE HELD JANUARY 9, 2009 AT 0900 AT HNA HEADQUARTERS AND JOINT SESSIONS WILL RESUME ON JANUARY 12, 2009. YOUR NURSE NEGOTIATORS HAVE CONDUCTED WALK THROUGHS TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE AND WILL EXPLORE SCHEDULING OTHERS AS NEEDED. YOUR NURSE NEGOTIATING TEAM MEMBERS ARE:
- TERI LUKE
- RAVIDA BENJAMIN
- JANE HAMMEL
- MARINA ROBINSON
- ROBIN TANNER.
HNA LRS IS ROSALYN PEREZ, COALIATION MEMBERS ARE TANYA WALLACE AND WALTER ALLAN.
PLEASE CHECK THE HOTLINE FOR UPDATES AT 537-2833.
THANK YOU FOR CALL THE HNA HOTLINE AND HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS. |
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