Leslie Margolin teamed with Tom Schneider and his team at RAI to help Kaiser Permanente, the Permanente Medical Group and the Coalition of KP Unions make history again in 2005, leading a National Bargaining process that resulted in a new five-year national agreement that covers 82,000 workers at 400 facilities in nine states and the District of Columbia.
AT THE TABLE: An Update on National Bargaining 2005 from the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and Kaiser Permanente
More than 330 people, representing Kaiser Permanente unions and management nationwide, gathered April 12-14 in San Francisco for the start of Common Issues Bargaining (CIB) 2005. Participants included members of the Common Issues Committee (CIC), a core group of 39 leaders representing the Union Coalition, the Permanente Medical Groups, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan/Hospitals; and the task groups, which consist of front-line workers and supervisors, operations and functional leaders, medical group leaders, and both labor and management leadership.
Leslie A. Margolin and Peter diCicco, as co-chairs of the CIC, kicked off the meeting. Margolin, SVP of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospital Operations, noted, “We made history in Common Issues Bargaining 2000, and I ask you to join with Peter and me to make history once again in 2005.”