Tell Maui health/Kaiser Permanente
to PUT PATIENTS FIRST
Registered nurses and healthcare workers at Maui Health/Kaiser Permanente are sounding the alarm on patient safety. We are demanding:
Safe staffing: Studies show that for every one patient added to a RN’s workload, the mortality rate increases by 7%.
Fair pay to recruit and retain the experienced staff our community needs.
demanding Safe Staffing
After months of negotiations, which included delays by the employer, the union contract covering the healthcare workers at Maui Health/Kaiser Permanente expired on September 30, 2024. Due to Maui Health/Kaiser Permanente’s reluctance to bargain in good faith and negotiate a fair contract that would meaningfully address staffing and the recruitment and retention of healthcare workers, workers held a vote to authorize a strike, which passed at ninety-eight percent (98%). Hundreds of healthcare workers went on strike from 7am on November 4, 2024 to 7am on November 7, 2024.
“We are the only hospital on this island, and it’s so important for us to make this hospital the best that it can be for our family, our patients and for the staff. You know, we want people to spend years working for the hospital, feel proud working for the hospital.”
Rowan Funes, RN
“I have personally witnessed a very steady push for nurses to do more with less… we are constantly working short-staffed… we’re down one to four nurses sometimes more, every single shift in the emergency room.”
Jennifer Rosenblad, RN
“We are fighting for safer staffing. We are fighting for our community to receive the care that they deserve. We’re fighting for better wages for everybody in our union to be able to make a livable wage on Maui.”
Melissa Robinson, RN
“This is about our community. This is about our families and our future of healthcare… We need to take a stand for what we know is right and better for our community and our families.”
Stephanie Castro, Outpatient Clinic Clerk
about SAFE staffing
Read the research on safe staffing: “Implications of the California Nurse Staffing Mandate for Other States,” led by Linda Aiken, PhD, RN and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.