Transferring to another Kaiser Hospital

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Just wanted to ask Kaiser RN's who transferred to another Kaiser location... did they transfer PTO, sick and life balance hours? Or. did your previous Kaiser location gave you a check for the balance? Also, did you carry your original hire date or they changed it To your new hire date? (For seniority purposes) thank you!

Yes its hard but not impossible.

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It's because they're different unions. Hubby wants to move back to Southern California and the loss of seniority plus the pay cut is a hard pill to swallow.

If moving to Kaiser Sunset location, then there are possibilities as it has CNA as Northern Calfornia, at least for seniority. If moving from San Francisco (very high cost of living) and get position at Sunset location, there would not be that much a diference, as cost of living here is cheaper.

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However, word of caution.

Kaiser Sunset is not an easy place to work, certain departments are stuffed now only around 50% permanents or less, the rest are travelers. Alot of new grads are not surviving the pressure as Kaiser now is trying to become magnet hospital. It was much, much better 10 years ago or so. A lot of weak Unions passed through, management used this situation, now we suffer.

Everyone is friendly (nurses and lower admins), but higher management generally not nurse friendly, to say the least, and so on....

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.
If moving to Kaiser Sunset location, then there are possibilities as it has CNA as Northern Calfornia, at least for seniority. If moving from San Francisco (very high cost of living) and get position at Sunset location, there would not be that much a diference, as cost of living here is cheaper.

Sacramento has the same contract as the bay area, and cost of living is MUCH cheaper than LA. And LA's contract is still much lower.

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I am aware of this, lucky you (not living in San Francisco, in terms of cost of living).

I don't want to start here UNION wars, but we get what we deserved. Our hospital had a chance to get Teamsters in, with about the same pay rate, but much better benefits, including pension plan, which was matching approximately 1:7 (if you contribute $100K, which is MAX, when you retire, you will get $700K).

Oh well what is done is done.

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I transferred from Norcal to Socal last year , didn't like the area so decided to move back to norcal. I apply to multiple jobs everyday but got rejected by all of them, not even a single call in the last 3-4 months. fyi: I transferred into the same union kaiser. it feels like moving from norcal to socal was piece of cake , but moving to socal to norcal kaiser even per diem/part time is extra difficult. can anyone explain why. 

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If I have worked at kaiser scal for 12 years as an lvn and get hired as an RN still in scal but lvns and rns have a different union, do I keep my seniority or lose it all and start over?

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jeannette lopez said:

If I have worked at kaiser scal for 12 years as an lvn and get hired as an RN still in scal but lvns and rns have a different union, do I keep my seniority or lose it all and start over?

Did you find out the answer to this question?

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.
jeannette lopez said:

If I have worked at kaiser scal for 12 years as an lvn and get hired as an RN still in scal but lvns and rns have a different union, do I keep my seniority or lose it all and start over?

Depends on your RN union's contract.  The one we have every 3 years of LVN experience they give you credit for a year or RN.  So you'd have 4 years of RN seniority I believe.

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Which union is this if you don't mind my asking?

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