Jim Pruitt 

Vice President, Labor Management Partnership and Labor Relations  
The Permanente Federation

Jim Pruitt has worked for Kaiser Permanente since 1974 in various labor relations roles and is currently vice president of Labor Management Partnership and Labor Relations for The Permanente Federation. His responsibilities include representing the Federation in working with the unions in negotiations and partnership activities. 

Jim graduated from the University of California in 1972 and received his Master of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University in 1974. He received a Diversity Professional Certification from Cornell in 2006. Jim was elected to the executive board for Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) for the 2011-2014 term and is now a president of LERA. He is the past co-chair of Health Care Industry Council for LERA and was an advisory board member for the University of Oregon’s “Understanding the Immigrant Experience in Oregon” in 2008.