As California-based health care giant Kaiser Permanente has fought one battle after another with its unionized workers in recent years, what began as a murmured question is becoming a shout: Has the organization’s vaunted Labor-Management Partnership run its course?
The answer affects the 150,000-plus Kaiser health care workers whose unions are included in that partnership, a team-oriented framework for every-day decision-making on care and staffing issues that puts nurses, clinicians and others in the middle of the process alongside doctors and company executives.
