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How Our Partnership Came to Be

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History
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Culture
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VID_154_How_Partnership_Came_to_Be
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The story behind the creation of our Labor Management Partnership, formed in 1997 after decades of strikes and discontent between Kaiser Permanente and its unions.

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Non-LMP
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http://content.jwplatform.com/videos/HkO84m4i-iq13QL4R.mp4
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9:19
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Filed
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The story behind the creation of our Labor Management Partnership, which emerged in 1997 after years of strife between Kaiser Permanente and its unions. Leaders from Kaiser Permanente and some of the key Partnership unions, both past and present, share how they agreed to work collaboratively — a solution that ultimately improved care for members and provided job security for workers. Today, our partnership is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind.

 

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Labor History: Picturing the Workers of Kaiser Permanente Andrea Buffa Mon, 08/05/2013 - 17:05
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History
labor history
Ann Rosener
photography
Bob Gumpert
Emmanuel Francis Joseph
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Culture
Hank
Summer 2013
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LABOR HISTORY
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hank_36_labor_history
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Lincoln Cushing
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This column from the Summer 2013 Hank discusses the extraordinary photographic record of Kaiser Permanente's history.

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Two people—one, a white woman, the other, a black man from the West Indies—witnessed the crucible of new workers who arrived by the tens of thousands at the Kaiser shipyards during World War II. Together, they laid the foundation for an extraordinary photographic record of the organization’s history.

Ann Rosener was a San Francisco Bay Area local whose assignment with the Office of War Information included writing and photography. Emmanuel Francis Joseph was born on the island of Saint Lucia. He settled in Oakland in 1924 and became the first professional black photographer in the Bay Area. Both artists brought a keen eye to the history unfolding before them and chronicled the often-overlooked working lives of women and people of color.

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Non-LMP
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Tyra Ferlatte
Ann Rosener's portrait of Janet Doyle at the Richmond shipyard in 1943
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Lincoln Cushing, lincoln.m.cushing@kp.org

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