November 30th, 2018
USC workers win contracts, bring Sodexo colleagues in-house
Nearly 1,100 University of Southern California employees at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract. The agreement not only makes USC one of the region’s highest-paying hospital systems, but it guarantees that more than 80 cafeteria workers whose jobs had been outsourced to Sodexo, a French conglomerate that […]
November 30th, 2018
Solidarity helps save benefits for 21 Children’s Hospital workers
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland already didn’t have enough EVS workers on the job to keep the hospital clean when management announced a rebid that would only make the problem worse. Under the proposed rebid, not only would there be even fewer EVS workers working their shifts, but the reductions would have resulted in 21 […]
November 20th, 2018
Press release: Kaiser mental health clinicians authorize 5-day statewide strike
Approximately 4,000 caregivers are prepared to strike more than 100 Kaiser clinics and medical facilities across California to settle a contract that improves access to mental health care. Seven years after exposing Kaiser Permanente’s failure to provide timely access to mental health care in violation of state law, Kaiser mental health clinicians are preparing to hold […]
October 30th, 2018
West Anaheim workers win 16 to 49 percent raises
For years, Prime Healthcare underpaid workers at West Anaheim Medical Center, while milking millions of dollars in profit. But that changed last year when more than 100 nurses and medical technicians joined NUHW and started fighting for a fair contract. After staging a picket and a one-day strike and authorizing a five-day strike, those workers […]
October 30th, 2018
Mental health clinicians launch campaign to improve care at Kaiser Permanente
We launched a social media campaign this month alerting Californians that Kaiser Permanente is still making patients wait far too long for follow-up mental health care appointments. The campaign features images of Kaiser mental health clinicians with messages about how Kaiser has refused to provide prompt mental health treatment in violation of state and federal […]