PG&E Newsletter March 2022 Agreement to have many ESC hourly classifications included in Pre-Arranged Overtime (POT) at Emergency Overtime (EOT) rate during major storm events ESC has secured an agreement with management to treat POT like EOT during major electric events (opening of an Operations Emergency Center)! ESC-represented classifications in Construction, Estimating, Mapping, and Service […]
PG&E management has asked to include certain ESC classifications in their planned offering of voluntary separation packages. Management cites a need to reduce earnings-impacting expenses as the driver of the offering of the separation packages. The Union is concerned about how the work will be done, the reduction of experienced employees, the impact that will […]
July 12th, 2022: The Union and management reached an agreement that makes continuing to work remotely possible for all ESC members. The agreement will be posted on the Union’s website. This agreement was important because, without it, hourly paid members would have reverted to the contract with the impending “return to the office” scheduled by […]
September 28th, 2022 Today, PG&E announced that it intends to create a subsidiary of PG&E that will incorporate its non-nuclear generation. ESC has been told that it is PG&E’s intent to remain the majority shareholder in the subsidiary “Pacific Generation.” Importantly for ESC members, the subsidiary is to be staffed, in ESC roles, by PG&E […]
October 14th, 2022 In 2020, due to work-from-home health orders, the Union requested management to institute a policy to pay out excess vacation. Management originally intended that policy to end in 2021, but the Union was able to secure an agreement to pay-out excess vacation for that year. Since management is unwilling to extend that […]
WE ARE VERY CONCERNED. After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there simply aren’t enough healthcare workers to safely and properly care for patients. Even before the pandemic, we faced a healthcare worker shortage; now, it is becoming a full-blown crisis that threatens all aspects of patient care. Many of our co-workers have left and more are […]
Click here for more photos! Urgent Update: Return to Work Instructions Kaiser has reached out to the unions to start the process of an orderly post-strike return to work tomorrow morning. The strike concludes at 6 am tomorrow, October 7th. Kaiser requests that employees return to work tomorrow only if their first scheduled shift starts […]
This round of National Agreement negotiations is unique: Previous staffing problems have become full-blown crisis since the pandemic Facing record inflation In the past 18 months, the last 4 rounds of negotiations between KP and non-coalition unions have resulted in strike notices or strikes. Last month, a majority of Coalition union members signed our Open […]
Coalition Open Letter Delivery ESC members delivered our Coalition Open Letter with almost 1,000 signatures to Kaiser executives, calling on Kaiser to address the staffing crisis that’s affecting patient care. We told them that it’s time for us to come together as problem solvers with real solutions for stabilizing our workforce. Our patients are depending […]
ESC Kaiser Media Release Form IBPS Flyer Selfie Action RAP CKPU Selfie Action March 2023 – Member Tip Sheet
