September 12th, 2015
Corizon’s for-profit prison healthcare under scrutiny
Following the death of Mario Martinez while in custody at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, KPFA Radio of Berkeley aired a 30-minute report on Corizon’s profit-driven health care at the Dublin jail and at Oakland’s Glenn E. Dyer Detention Center. Previously, KTVU TV (Channel 2, Oakland) aired the first two parts in an ongoing series […]
April 28th, 2015
Corizon workers ratify three-year contract
NUHW members at Santa Rita Jail and Glenn Dyer Detention Facility in Alameda County recently ratified a three-year agreement with 92% approval after a year of contentious bargaining with Corizon Health Services. Bargaining went down to the wire, with the members authorizing a strike and the bargaining committee delivering a ten-day strike notice before settling on an […]
February 5th, 2015
Video: NUHW’s historic Kaiser strike, January 2015
Our Kaiser strike was a great success! We held sixty-five picket lines in thirty-five cities throughout California between January 12 and January 16, 2015, bringing much-needed attention to Kaiser’s profit-first mentality and to the systemic understaffing of Kaiser’s psychiatry department, which has led to hardships and even tragedies for Kaiser patients and their families. We […]
February 4th, 2015
Video: Corizon’s get-rich-quick scheme is killing people
Click here to join the ACLU, Beyond Bars, and The Nation in a fight against prison profiteers like Corizon.
January 26th, 2015
Workers at Fortuna’s Redwood Memorial Hospital vote to join NUHW!
Service and tech workers at St. Joseph Health System’s Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna voted today by a 3-1 margin to join NUHW! The vote count was held at 1 p.m. today at the National Labor Relations Board’s San Francisco office. This is the third Northern California St. Joseph hospital in the past year to […]