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Ken Deitz was elected to the post of President for the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) at the 2010 Convention. A tough and tenacious negotiator, Ken has been a leader in bargaining almost every UNAC/UHCP contract during the last 15 years.
Since 1992, Ken has served as chief negotiator during bargaining with Kaiser Permanente. In 2000, the first year of bargaining after the creation of the Labor Management Partnership, he was on the Bargaining Task Group for Quality and served on the Common Issues Committee (CIC). Five years later, he was on the Special Task Group for Attendance and again served on the CIC. Members of the St. Francis Registered Nurses Association and Sharp Professional Nurses Network have also benefited from Ken’s skills as a negotiator.
Before becoming the union’s representation coordinator, Ken served the UNAC/UHCP membership as a staff representative. He now leads a team of 19 staff reps and works to ensure the best contracts are negotiated and enforced at all facilities. He reviews all cases appealed to arbitration and works with local affiliates when needed. Ken continually upgrades his skills as a union leader by taking courses in bargaining, representation and arbitration at the George Meany Center/National Labor College.
Ken earned his Associate of Arts Degree in nursing at Chaffey Junior College in Alta Loma, C.A., after serving a four-year stint in the Air Force as a medical corpsman in Albuquerque, N.M. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing at California State University, Los Angeles. A hemodialysis nurse at Kaiser Fontana from 1979-89, Ken was the affiliate’s hospital co-chair and a member of the 1989 negotiating team. He’s has also worked in the Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care Unit.
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