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Kapi’olani Nurses Vote Overwhelmingly to Ratify Historic New Contract
Hawai’i Nurses’ Association/OPEIU Local 50 nurses at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children overwhelmingly voted to ratify a HISTORIC three-year contract, which includes the state’s first contractually enforceable safe staffing ratios—a major priority for the medical center’s 600+ nurses.
Throughout a year of bargaining, three informational pickets, two ULP strikes, and a three-week lockout, Kapi’olani nurses remained united. In doing so, they’ve won a monumental contract that will help improve the lives of patients and inspire healthcare workers across the state to fight for what they deserve.
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ASL Interpreters Union-OPEIU Announces Campaign to Organize Sorenson and ZVRS/Purple
New York, NY—Today, the ASL Interpreters Union-OPEIU publicly launched with an international organizing committee spanning from Puerto Rico to Seattle. The union is organizing video relay service (VRS) interpreters at Sorenson and ZVRS/Purple (ZP) as the first step to establishing new standards in ASL interpreting nationwide. ASL interpreters are launching their union to fight for wages that keep up with the cost of living, more respect for the Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf-Blind communities, and a voice on the job.
Video relay service is a federally administered program required under the Americans with Disabilities Act ensuring the Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf-Blind communities have equal access to telecommunications services. Too often, the Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf-Blind communities lose out when experienced interpreters are pushed out of VRS by poor working conditions, when early career interpreters lack adequate training and when interpreters do not have sufficient breaks to be able to give callers the attention they deserve.
Read the OPEIU Connect Fall 2024 Issue Online!
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Support HNA/OPEIU Local 50 Nurses Locked Out at Kapi’olani
To All Local Unions:
On Sept. 14, 2024, Hawai’i Pacific Health (HPH)/Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children locked out 600 highly skilled local nurses until they unconditionally accept the hospital’s contract demands.
This lockout is about retaliating and breaking the nurses resolve to advocate for their patients. HPH is willing to compromise patient care to do it.
Support our HNA/OPEIU Local 50 nurses and send a letter to the HPH Board of Directors and CEO Ray Vara. Tell them to end the Kapi’olani lockout because their greed hurts Hawai’i.
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NURSES BEGIN ULP STRIKE AT KAPI’OLANI MEDICAL CENTER IN HONOLULU
WHO: The Hawai’i Nurses’ Association/OPEIU Local 50 represents about 600 nurses at Kapi’olani Medical Center in Honolulu.
WHAT: 600 nurses are beginning a one-day ULP strike in response to hospital management’s retaliation, intimidation and coercion of nurses for reporting unsafe staffing levels and a failure to bargain in good faith. Kapi’olani management threatened to begin an illegal lockout after 96 percent of nurses at the hospital voted to strike. Nurses at Kapi’olani have worked since Nov. 2023 without a union contract.
WHEN: Friday, Sept. 13 at 6:30 am local time until 8:30 pm.
WHERE: Kapi’olani Medical Center at 1319 Punahou Street in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
WHY: Nurses at Kapi’olani are on ULP strike – the second this year – to call attention to their employer’s retaliation, intimidation and coercive tactics at the bargaining table and on the hospital floor. Management’s failure to bargain in good faith jeopardizes the well-being of nurses, patients and their communities.
Click here to view the petition to the state’s governor, Josh Green, asking him to help end the lockout.
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