July 11th, 2018
West Anaheim caregivers demand fair wages
One year after forming a union, nurses and technicians at West Anaheim Medical Center staged an informational picket July 11 to demand better pay. While West Anaheim is one of Prime Healthcare Services’ most profitable hospitals, caregivers there make less than their cohorts at nearby Prime hospitals. Many West Anaheim caregivers have worked at the […]
June 29th, 2018
Caregivers rally to stop layoffs at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
More than 200 people picketed outside Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Friday calling on the hospital to rescind layoffs to dozens of caregivers who worked around the clock in the aftermath of last year’s fires. Chanting “What do we want? No layoffs!,” workers and supporters questioned why the hospital would be laying off frontline caregivers, including […]
June 29th, 2018
NUHW partakes in Mental Health Matters Day
NUHW once again co-sponsored Mental Health Matters Day in Sacramento. The one-day event, organized by Mental Health America of California, brings together advocates for improving mental health care and ending stigma. This year’s keynote speaker was Darryl “DMC” McDaniels from the seminal hip hop group Run-DMC. Several of our Kaiser mental health clinicians ran our […]
June 29th, 2018
NUHW members take case for raises to Santa Cruz supervisors
NUHW-represented treatment workers at Santa Cruz County’s largest drug rehabilitation facility told county lawmakers that Santa Cruz’s addiction crisis won’t get better until the county pays them a living wage. Santa Cruz has an opioid overdose death rate double the statewide average. Yet, Janus of Santa Cruz, the county’s primary addiction treatment provider, pays its […]
June 26th, 2018
News of the month: NUHW members fighting layoffs in Santa Rosa
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported on Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital announcing layoffs, which would include 35 NUHW members, even though the hospital raked in a $55 million last year. The hospital is offering to forgo laying off 28 nursing assistants, but only if all 150 nursing assistants agree to go from a 40 hour/week […]