They Came After Our Sick Time Today!

Listen up people: Kaiser is already making moves to take away our sick time!

It's the second day of bargaining and we broke into 4 different subgroups. I am on the Attendance sub group. After some introductions and polite talk, we looked at our attendance numbers from the last four years. Those numbers show that we have improved all over the place during the last few years. THAT IS A FACT. But Kaiser management ignored the facts. They talked about how sick time has decreased but protected time has increased and how that is labor's fault.

Why'd they do that, you ask? In their polite, roundabout way, they want to take away our front loading of sick time and they want to take away days of sick time. They look at sick time as something that we should not use because it makes our departments short staffed. We would have more then enough staff for the sick calls if management would stop trying to take everything away from us! We would have facilities that wouldn't be overworked and stressed out, which effects everyone's health. Management likes to play the blame game: Blame the workers for sick time and then try to take it away from us.

Management needs to stop wasting their time in bargaining pointing fingers at us and trying to take our stuff. They need to look at their own practices and their own managers.

It's getting serious, people. Make no mistake: Kaiser wants concessions from us on sick time. I'm ready to fight them, but I need your support. Get mad, get purple, and get ready to fight!