Contracts

This landmark agreement between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions established the Labor Management Partnership and laid out the core principles, structures and commitments that guide it.

October 1997

• Purpose
• Process and Structure
• Decision-Making
• Scope
• Employment Security
• Union Security
• Marketing Cooperation
• Term of Agreement
• Savings Clause

Purpose

Health care services and the institutions that provide them are undergoing rapid change. Advances in health care and the explosive growth of for-profit health care businesses present challenges as well as opportunities for Kaiser Permanente, the unions, and the members they represent. Kaiser Permanente and the undersigned labor organizations believe that now is the time to enter into a new way of doing business. Now is the time to unite around our common purposes and work together to most effectively deliver high quality health care and prevail in our new, highly competitive environment.

As social benefit membership organizations, founded on the principle of making life better for those we serve, it is our common goal to make Kaiser Permanente the pre-eminent deliverer of health care in the United States. It is further our goal to demonstrate by any measure that labor-management collaboration produces superior health care outcomes, market leading competitive performance, and a superior workplace for Kaiser Permanente employees.

In this spirit and with this intent, Kaiser Permanente and the undersigned labor organizations agree to establish a Partnership in pursuit of our common goals to:

• Improve quality health care for Kaiser Permanente members and the communities we serve;
• Assist Kaiser Permanente in achieving and maintaining market leading competitive performance;
• Make Kaiser Permanente a better place to work;
• Expand Kaiser Permanente's membership in current and new markets, including designation as a provider of choice for all labor organizations in the areas we serve;
• Provide Kaiser Permanente employees with the maximum possible employment and income security within Kaiser Permanente and/or the health care field;
• Involve employees and their unions in decisions.

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