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| Kaiser CEO at CKPU's conference |
The “partnership”
unions are beginning to prepare for next year’s negotiations with Kaiser
Permanente… which means it’s time for more “instant recesses,” dance-offs,
“Contract
Buddy,” Team Salad Days, and Zumba.
However, in an
interesting new development, Tasty’s sources also report growing tensions
between various partnership unions.
Here’s what Tasty
knows.
Two weekends ago
(August 25-27), the partnership unions -- the “Coalition of Kaiser
Permanente Unions” -- held a three-day conference at the Hilton Portland
and Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon.
Kaiser CEO Bernard
Tyson spoke to the conference, which also included multiple “Thrive activities,”
Zumba, and “Instant Recesses” to the music of Michael Jackson and Bruno Mars.
Other items on the
agenda?
"Reflections on
20 Years of Partnering" and workshops including "The Road to Workplace
Wellness," "Projecting Confidence and Credibility," "BMI Boot
Camp: Become a Trail Blazer for Health," and "Tag – You’re It."
In 2012, SEIU-UHW’s Dave
Regan famously pushed the partnership unions to implement an invasive “wellness”
program” that allows Kaiser officials to monitor employees’ biometric data including
their BMI (“Body Mass Index”), blood pressure, smoking rate, and cholesterol
level. Instead of strikes, Regan pressed Kaiser workers to wear “purple
pedometers” and conduct “wellness
walks” to get in shape for their employer.
So what about the
tensions between partnership unions?
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| SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan speaking at CKPU conference |
Tasty’s sources say
those arose on Sunday, when leaders of various partnership unions, including
Regan, addressed the conference about next year’s negotiations with Kaiser.
Apparently,
multiple unions successfully banded together to outvote Regan and SEIU-UHW on
various issues… which angered Regan.
How to fix it?
Regan
proposed changing the voting rules in order to give Regan and SEIU-UHW more
votes… which of course angered the other unions.
According to Tasty’s sources,
the tensions burst into the open with Ragin’
Dave Regan literally screaming from the podium and attacking the
partnership unions that opposed him.
Here’s how one source
put it: “Regan lost it. He was screaming his ass off. I know the dude is a
hothead, but I didn’t expect this.”
Stay tuned for more…
