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My husband works at Kaiser. The " “across-the-board wage increases” ranging from roughly 10% to more than 14% over four years" might refer to the demand that t
by llsf 3y ago
My husband works at Kaiser. The " “across-the-board wage increases” ranging from roughly 10% to more than 14% over four years" might refer to the demand that the union had, which was across the board to renew the 4 years contract with 4%/4%/3%/3% which represents indeed 14.3% the 4th year.
There has been several versions 3/3/3/3, 4/4/4/4 over the past 4-5 days. Not sure what is the latest being negotiated today (I should find out later today).
Kaiser tried to break the strike the night before the strike started, by given more, but only to a subset of employees. Which the union rejected.
- llsf 3y agoKaiser just agreed to give 6/5/5/5 so a 22.7% cumulative over 4 years. Now what would be the effective inflation in 4 years, is anyone's guess... The past 4 years were a cumulative 20.4% in US for perspective.
- runako 3y agoThank you for that. If you are comfortable sharing, would these be the first cost-of-living raises since 2020? Or have they been getting 3%-4% raises the last few years?
- llsf 3y agoDifferent groups inside Kaiser have different contracts. So, I cannot speak for all Kaiser employees. But in my husband's group, every 4 years, the contract is either re-applied, or goes through negotiation. To keep it simple, due to inflation and relative good results of Kaiser, the union decided to adjust the pay increase for this new contract. The previous contract did include automatic yearly raise, that were agreed before 2020.
- llsf 3y agoLatest negotiation stopped at 5/5/5/4, still no agreement.