November 20, 2025
It’s time to move forward
Our strong, historic offer honors Alliance-represented employees’ contributions while helping to keep our care affordable.
This message was sent to Alliance-represented employees on Thursday, November 20.
National bargaining continued with the Alliance of Health Care Unions this week, November 17 through 19, in Los Angeles. The parties reached 4 tentative agreements.
- The parties agreed to create a Strategic Leadership Council, where Alliance-represented employees and Kaiser Permanente leaders will work in partnership to bring forward ideas and support Kaiser Permanente in meeting the many challenges we face as a health care organization today.
- Kaiser Permanente will increase the contribution to the Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust by 40% to provide training and education to Labor Management Partnership union members.
- Kaiser Permanente will make a contribution to the Hotel and Restaurant Industry Employment and Training Trust in the amount of approximately $400,000 over the term of the agreement.
- For employees represented by Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, the number of compensated hours worked to qualify as a year of credited service in the Kaiser Permanente Retirement Plan was lowered from 2,000 to 1,800.
We are encouraged by this progress. However, there was no meaningful movement on the major components of our economic proposal, including across-the-board wage increases.
Kaiser Permanente is offering a historic 21.5% across-the-board wage increase over 4 years, while the Alliance has not moved from its current demand of 25% over 4 years. In addition to wage increases, our proposal includes enhanced health care coverage and retirement benefits, greater investments in training and education trusts, and more.
We have been clear with the Alliance that our offer is strong, rewards Alliance-represented employees for your contributions while allowing us to remain affordable. Moving above our 21.5% wage offer would impact health care affordability for Kaiser Permanente members and customers at a time when health care costs continue to rise.
Our offer is not retroactive to when the last Alliance national agreement expired on September 30. This means that every day our offer goes unratified, you and your fellow Alliance-represented employees are not receiving the wage increase associated with the proposed first-year ATB of 6.5%. For an average Alliance-represented employee making $64 per hour and working 30 hours per week, this adds up to approximately $540 in additional wages you are not receiving each month the Alliance delays ratifying our offer.
For full-time employees, it’s even more — approximately $720 you aren’t getting each month. This example is for wages alone. For each month ratification is delayed, other terms of our offer that may impact your pay, such as minimum wage rates and wage scale adjustment are also being delayed. Given the strength of our existing offer, it’s time to move forward.
We remain focused on reaching an agreement that rewards you without compromising our members’ ability to afford our care. We ask you to consider the facts — and to urge your Alliance representatives to accept our strong offer.
