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Sponsors Joseph Gonzales, senior radiology manager, and Rebecca Torres, pharmacy technician and SEIU Local 105 member

Isolina Pistoessi, Adult Primary Care RN, Falls Church, Va.

Njoki Maina, a senior lab assistant and SEIU UHW member, works in the lab at Santa Rosa Medical Center lab, which saved money by reducing its use of butterfly needles.

Henrietta, the resident columnist for the LMP's quarterly magazine Hank, urges KP employees to to explore new ways of doing their work.

Peter Sidhu, RN, and Arjun Srinivasan, MD, get ready to demonstrate how to safely put on and take off protective gear. 

"If you are going to be a good partner, you have to have your partner’s interests in mind as well as your own," says Michael Belmont. 

Health is a team sport for these colleagues at the lab at the South Bay Medical Center in Southern California, including members of UFCW Local 770 and SEIU-UHW, who take Instant Recess® together.

Solving problems together as a team, such as this one in Georgia, can help keep stress and burnout at bay. 

Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Secretary of Labor, made the economic case for worker engagement during his keynote address.

Facility and regional ratings, as well as more rigorous team assessments, are part of the 2015 National Agreement. 

When mid-level leaders from both management and unions build skills in key partnership concepts, they are in a better position to support unit-based teams.