May 13th, 2022
Kaiser Hawaii mental health therapists to strike starting May 18
Demand for mental health services in Hawaii is surging, but Kaiser Permanente fails to add adequate staff or improve access, placing patients at risk Clinicians schedule statewide strike starting May 18 to force changes at HMO that serves 260,000 Hawaii residents HONOLULU — Kaiser Permanente has a double-standard in Hawaii. The healthcare provider has recently […]
December 6th, 2021
Town Hall sheds light on UCSF’s hollowing out of Children’s Hospital Oakland
Since affiliating with UCSF in 2014, Children’s Hospital Oakland has seen fewer patients, while UCSF’s children’s hospital in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, which opened in 2015, has seen its patient census consistently grow. On Dec. 1, NUHW members at the hospital joined with community and elected allies, to share their concerns that UCSF is […]
June 17th, 2021
NUHW members picket Tenet hospitals; back calls for investigation into COVID relief aid
NUHW members held informational pickets outside three Southern California Tenet Healthcare hospitals demanding answers about why the nation’s second largest hospital chain is understaffing facilities and underpaying workers despite receiving billions in federal COVID-relief funds and spending $1.1 billion to buy 45 surgery centers. The pickets outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, Los Alamitos Medical Center […]
June 1st, 2021
California Senate passes NUHW-sponsored mental health parity bill
The State Senate has overwhelmingly passed a landmark bill that would require all HMOs and health insurers in California, including Kaiser Permanente, to provide clinically necessary follow-up mental health and substance use disorder appointments within 10 business days. SB 221, which is authored by State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco and sponsored by NUHW, passed […]
May 27th, 2021
Keck-USC healthcare workers overwhelmingly authorize 5-day strike
More than 1,500 NUHW members at Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and several university clinics and call centers have authorized a 5-day strike. Approximately 96 percent of voters opted to authorize the strike in their fight to improve wages, protect their health and retirement benefits and preserve their right to inform […]