June 29th, 2018
NUHW calls for migrant families to be immediately reunited
NUHW’s Executive Board unanimously passed a resolution Thursday, June 28 condemning President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policies and calling on his administration to immediately return migrant children to their parents. The resolution followed a statement signed by seven NUHW Executive vice presidents, who are also mental health clinicians, warning that the administration’s “zero-tolerance” approach risked causing […]
January 22nd, 2018
Video: Sodexo–Tenet workers have to recycle cans to make ends meet
Full-time Sodexo workers at three Tenet Healthcare hospitals in Orange and Los Angeles counties have to recycle cans to make ends meet. Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center, Los Alamitos Medical Center, and Lakewood Regional Medical Center Lakewood Regional Medical Center subcontract workers to Sodexo, a multinational firm that pays barely above minimum wage. On February 1, Fountain Valley workers […]
October 24th, 2017
Gavin Newsom discusses NUHW, unions, and single-payer health care at 2018 Governor Candidate Debate
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom discussed NUHW as a model union and the importance of labor unions, and voice his support of a single-payer healthcare system at NUHW’s 2018 Governor Candidate Debate in Anaheim on October 22. Newsom on NUHW: Newsom on the importance of labor unions: Newsom on single-payer healthcare:
October 16th, 2017
NUHW launches campaign to lift poverty wages
NUHW members at the University of Southern California are fighting to raise wages for workers whose jobs are subcontracted to Sodexo. The campaign began with a video and a a series of infographics calling out USC President Max Nikias for using the multinational subcontracting firm to hold down workers’ wages and deny them the benefits […]
August 17th, 2017
Trump lacks moral authority to lead the nation
This op-ed was originally published in the Huff Post. By Sal Rosselli Racism is on the rise and white supremacists are on the march. And it is all being excused, justified, and normalized by a president who has proven himself, time and again, either unable or unwilling to distinguish between truth and lies, fact and […]