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		<title>Coalition of KP Unions’ delegates endorse tentative agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, 500 delegates representing 30 union locals and 96,000 Kaiser Permanente employees reviewed and unanimously endorsed the tentative agreement on a new, two-year National Agreement. This meeting was the first step toward the coalition unions’ ratification of the new National Agreement. The tentative agreement now moves to the local unions for voting. Local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bargaining2010.org/182/coalition-of-kp-unions%e2%80%99-delegates-endorse-tentative-agreement</link>
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		<title>Kaiser Permanente and Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions reach Tentative Agreement for new Union Contract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early Friday morning, after a three-and-a-half day marathon bargaining session, Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions reached a tentative agreement on a new, two-year National Agreement.  During negotiations, the parties made progress toward improving affordability, service and quality for health plan members and being the best place to work. The unique Labor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bargaining2010.org/165/kaiser-permanente-and-coalition-of-kaiser-permanente-unions-reach-tentative-agreement-for-new-union-contract</link>
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		<title>CIC accepts subgroup recommendations, begins economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The third session of national bargaining concluded yesterday with the Common Issues Committee accepting joint recommendations from the four CIC subgroups, and beginning the process of discussing economics.   The next – and final – bargaining session will take place May 25-27 in Los Angeles.  “We’re mindful of the 160,000-some people who aren’t here at bargaining but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bargaining2010.org/160/cic-accepts-subgroup-recommendations-begins-economics</link>
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		<title>Subgroups make progress in national bargaining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the second three-day session of national bargaining, four subgroups tackled improving Partnership, attendance and healthy workforce, workforce planning and development, and performance improvement/performance sharing program.  The negotiations are being conducted by a 111-member Common Issues Committee. The CIC is composed of 68 union members and 43 KP leaders.  In addition, local unions brought more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bargaining2010.org/151/subgroups-make-progress-in-national-bargaining</link>
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		<title>Negotiations begin for new national agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leaders of Kaiser Permanente, the Permanente Medical Groups, and more than 170 union members from the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions met this week in Oakland for their first three-day national bargaining session.   After a half-day of orientation and another half-day of training in the interest-based bargaining process, the group broke into four sub-groups to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bargaining2010.org/138/negotiations-begin-for-new-national-agreement</link>
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		<title>National bargaining set to begin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National bargaining between Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions opens April 6 in Oakland, Calif. The talks will use the distinctive interest-based bargaining process that guided negotiations in 2000 and 2005.  The new National Agreement will serve as both a union contract for 96,000 union Coalition-represented employees; and a full expression of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bargaining2010.org/110/kp-and-union-coalition-leaders-kick-off-national-bargaining</link>
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