Stories

Juan Piantino, MD, shares ideas with Debbie Newcomb, an electro-neurodiagnostic technologist and UFCW Local 555 member.

Unit Manager Manlee Velasco, RN, (left) and labor co-lead Jenalyn Andres, RN, adopted a successful practice from Southern California to reduce patient falls.

Union leaders and trained union ambassadors, a few of whom are pictured here, have worked with Kaiser Permanente sales and marketing teams to grow health plan membership.

Before opening up to the public in 1945, our health plan served shipyard workers, such as these gentlemen signing up in Richmond in 1942. 

We're celebrating Kaiser Permanente's rich history, including this ribbon cutting at the South Wing of the Bess Kaiser Hospital in the Northwest region in 1967. 

KP workers attend a 40th anniversary Voters' Rights March during 2005 National Agreement bargaining in Atlanta. 

Workers and our organization thrive when everyone is free to speak. 

A 1943 shift change at the Richmond shipyards.

Bargaining on the 2015 National Agreement concluded successfully when 150 union, management and physician representatives approved a tentative agreement.

Beyond wages and benefits: A national bargaining team of union and management representatives proposed ways to improve KP operations, service and partnership.

Kathy Gerwig, vice president of employee safety, health and wellness (left) and Meg Niemi, president of SEIU Local 49, co-led the Total Health and Workplace Safety bargaining subgroup.

The 2015 National Agreement between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions was the the largest private sector contract negotiated in 2015.