Kaiser Runs Aground in Hawaii

[Omaha Steve]

http://labornotes.org/2014/10/kaiser-runs-aground-hawaii

October 21, 2014 / Steve Early

Her top management priority “is to make sure that the work environment is as good as it can be…so that everyone can love what they do,” explained Mary Ann Barnes, new president of Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii, in the employee newsletter.

The pictured showed her wearing a colorful Hawaiian lei. For spreading such good vibes she earns an estimated $1 million a year.

So several hundred red-T-shirted members of UNITE HERE Local 5, including those who work at Kaiser clinics and hospitals, tried to meet with Barnes September 24 at her office in Honolulu. They spilled out of three buses into the parking lot below Barnes’ window.



Hawaiian health care workers in UNITE HERE Local 5 have organized short strikes over workloads, staff cuts, and clinic closings. Photo: UNITE HERE Local 5. -


“I don’t know but I’ve been told, Kaiser’s got a pot of gold,” they chanted. “And if they don’t give it up soon, we’ll be marching here ’til June!”

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