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Amendment #1

AMENDMENT NUMBER #1 [JOINT SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT]:
ARTICLE XIV– FINANCE

AMEND SECTION 1401:

  1. Affiliate dues shall be 1.25% of the current Weighted Average Hourly Rate effective immediately

  2. and thereafter adjusted at 1.25% after each negotiated wage increase at each affiliate and paid

  3. times 173.33 hours per month. Of this amount eighty-six percent (86%) eighty-four (84%) will

  4. be paid to the State Association and fourteen percent (14%) sixteen (16%) will be paid as

  5. Affiliate dues for affiliates with membership less than 400. For those Affiliates with membership

  6.  greater than 250 400, eighty-seven percent (87%) will be paid to the State Association and thirteen

  7. percent (13%) will be paid as Affiliate dues.

 

SUBMITTED BY:

  • Suet Yee, RN, President and Delegate
  • Marjorine Alanes, RN, Vice President and Delegate
  • Garden Grove Registered Nurses Association (GGRNA)
  • Yvette Harris, RN, President and Delegate
  • Detrah Abdouch, RN, Treasurer and Delegate
  • Parkview Registered Nurses Association (PRNA)
  • Kerin Asher-Galloway, CNM, President and Delegate
  • Jennifer Payne, ICDNS/CNSs, Vice President and Delegate
  • Kaiser Permanente Certified Specialty Professionals (KPCSP)


Intent and Rationale:

Per the authors of the Amendment, the proposed change is intended to accomplish the following objectives:

• This amendment adjusts the dues split for affiliates with fewer than 400 members from 86%/14% (State/Affiliate) to 84%/16% and raises the membership threshold for the reduced-retention tier from 250 to 400 members. While the change benefits all smaller affiliates statewide, it is especially critical for regional affiliates.

• Why this matters:

● Regional affiliates carry higher fixed costs per member. Because our membership is spread across a wide geographic area rather than concentrated in one location, basic functions — meetings, site visits, grievance handling, officer travel — cost more per member than they do for affiliates covering a single facility or a tight geographic footprint. A flat dues-retention rate doesn’t account for this; it assumes an economy of scale that regional affiliates don’t have.

● The current split doesn’t support the officer compensation standard the union itself uses. Officer stipends are meant to reflect the Weighted Average Hourly Rate — that’s the benchmark. Under the current 87/13 split, our affiliate cannot fund officer compensation at that standard. This creates a real inequity: officers doing the same work, held to the same responsibilities, are compensated below the union’s own benchmark simply because of dues structure, not workload. ○ Example of limits of functioning- Current state of the KPCSP affiliate is 50% WHAR rate to compensate for the work that needs to be done officers have taken a pay cut and have lost engagement due to this cut in pay.

● The 250-member threshold no longer reflects operational reality. Affiliates between 250 and 400 members face the same thin-resource challenges as those below 250 — they just cross an arbitrary line that pushes them into a less favorable split. Raising the threshold to 400 groups affiliates by actual operational burden rather than a cutoff that no longer matches how these affiliates function.

● This is a broad equity fix, not a carve-out. The amendment applies to every affiliate under 400 members, not just ours. It corrects a structural gap for a whole category of affiliates who are effectively subsidizing state-level operations at the expense of their own sustainability.

● The impact is modest at the state level, material at the affiliate level. A 3-point shift in retention translates to roughly $15,000 annually for our affiliate – not a large sum in state-association terms, but the difference between being able to compensate officers properly and not.

 

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION: ADOPTION

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