Organizational Processes for TPP: Session 10

Labor-Management Partnership

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Session Design (3 hours )

• Introduction (5 min.) • Dialogue on Industry Analysis Papers (10min.) • Labor-Management Partnership Principles (15 min.) • K-P Case (45 min.) • Break (10 min.) • Skill module (45 min.) • Skill module (45 min.) • Concluding comments (5 min.)

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Labor-Management Partnership

• Key Assumptions – Multiple stakeholders – Common and competing interests

• Need for mechanisms to identify and pursue common interests

• Need for mechanisms to surface and address conflicting interests – Interests/Contextual Conditions evolve • Need for periodic recalibration

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Selected Principles of Partnership

• Trust and Respect

• Shared Vision

• Negotiated Change

• Joint Implementation and Governance

• Learning and Adjustment

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Selected Tensions Underlying the Principles

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Individual InstitutionaTrust and Respect

Big Picture Details Matter

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Dialogue Action

Short Term Long Term

Shared Vision

Negotiated Change

Joint Implementation/Governance

Learning and Adjustment

US Context for Labor- Management Partnerships

• Historically adversarial relationships • The era of stable labor-management relations and economic growth – 1950s, ‘60s • Concession bargaining and anti-union era – late ‘70s, especially the 1980s and into the 1990s • Re-considering labor-management relationships – new ventures, Saturn, Kaiser Permanente • Distinguishing partnership from cooperation Adapted from presentation by Susan C. Eaton & Robert McKersie atConference on “Transforming Labor Relations” MIT – March 6, 2003

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Conceptual framework for Labor- Management Partnerships

• Basic Model of Change – Factors that unfreeze or motivate change – Implementing the change process – Diffusing and institutionalizing change • Changes must be consistent across three levels of activity—workplace, negotiations, strategic • Process will encounter periodic pivotal events • Substantive results must address bottom line interests & objectives of workforce and the employer

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Strategic partnership case study: Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of

Kaiser Permanente Unions (CKPU)

– Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals in a business partnership with Permanente Medical Groups (PMGs)

• K-P serves 8.6 million members in 18 states with 80% in California

• Employment: 110,000 • Eligible for union membership: 92,032 • Covered by the labor-management partnership: 76,000

– Partnership coverage: • 8 international unions (largest is SEIU) • 26 local agreements • The California Nurses Association with 10,000 members in northern California is not a member, other unions are

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Pivotal Events

• Confrontation Meeting in Dallas 1996 • Partnership Agreement 1997

– Key agreements: employment and income security, interest- based problem-solving, marketing union healthcare

• Clarification of Employment Security 1999 • SEIU Strike in Oregon 1999 • Agreement to Negotiate a National Agreement 1999 • Interest Based Process 2000

• Additional key “unfreezing” factors: – Strong union presence—avoidance not an option – Both parties dissatisfied with past – Credible union threat of escalation (corporate campaign) – Strong leadership with alternative vision

• David Lawrence & Peter diCicco – All the unions involved

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2000 Negotiations

• Prerequisites: – Extensive training in concept and tools of IBN – Agreement that local market rates have weight – Local agreements would be extended without a common expiration date – Either side could opt out

• The Process: – Feb to Sept 2000 with almost 400 participants – Seven Bargaining Task Groups – Common Interest Committee (coordination role)

• The Agreement – Five year agreement – Ratified by 92%

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Further pivotal events

• Outcomes of the 2000 Negotiations – Substantive terms

• A Joint Staffing Process • Reducing Errors and Improving Patient/Member Safety • Workforce Flexibility Principles • Work-Life Balance • Compensation • Medical Benefits • Issue Resolution and Corrective Action

– Confidence, converts to power of IBN and Partnership Principles

• Partnership Infrastructure—governance structures, training, joint funding, etc.

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Joint LMP Contractual Committees

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Kaiser Permanente Partnership Group (KPPG)*

Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions

(CKPU)*

National Labor Management Partnership Strategy Group**

National Partnership

Council (NPC)**

Regional Partnership Teams**

Service Area/

Facility Teams**

Service Area/

Facility Teams**

Service Area/

Facility Teams**

Joint Staffing Issue Resolution

Work-Life Balance

Transitional Work***

Structure Performance Sharing

Education

Benefits Subcontracting

Workplace Safety

* Independent Governance Bodies ** Joint LMP Contractual Committee/Team *** Functional Responsibility

Key events diffusion examples

• Baldwin Park: Opening a new facility in record time and with work innovations

• Optical Laboratory—Jointly saving and turning around a facility likely to close, involvement of key managers and union people

• Main effect: Highly visible success stories with clear results on key interests of employer and workforce

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Achievements to date include :

• Largest partnership in the country • Most extensive partnership agreement • Most successful example of IBN in labor negotiations • Some key visible, tangible achievements • Infrastructure and resources in place to support diffusion • Developing penetration of on-going operations- working with middle managers • Developing capacity and skills among union leaders, sense of improvement for workers

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Future challenges

• Strategic Level: – Clarifying Union Participation at Strategic Level – Gaining Buy in from Doctors & Line Mgrs. – Building Union Capacity to Add Value

• Negotiations Level: – Preparing for Follow up Agreement in 2005

• Workplace Level: – Delivering Tangible Benefits to Rank & File – Grievance handling and problem resolution – Day to day work environment improvements – Achieving Tangible Cost Savings and Performance Improvements System-wide

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