AFL-CIO, KAISER REACH AGREEMENT ON LABOR-MANAGEMENT PARTNERSHIP.Byline: Kevin Galvin Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. and Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. Medical Care agreed to a national labor-management partnership that would give workers a greater say in patient care and increase their job security. In return, labor would promote Kaiser's health care services among union health plans. The agreement announced Thursday culminates nearly two years of talks between Kaiser officials and a labor committee representing most of the 14 unions whose 47 locals cover more than 50,000 Kaiser employees. The deal, subject to the approval of union members, covers four areas: patient care, job security, union recruitment at unorganized sites and promotion of Kaiser services. Kaiser, the nation's oldest and largest nonprofit HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, , has 7 million members in 16 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , about 9,500 physicians and more than 7,000 hospital beds. It has hospitals in Panorama City and Woodland Hills, among other Southern California sites. The unions represent nurses, food workers, accountants, technicians and other Kaiser employees. Kaiser's doctors are not unionized. As many as 25,000 Kaiser workers are not union members; the agreement affects only unionized Kaiser shops. |
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