June 26th, 2018
News of the Week: Judge orders migrant families reunited
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: A federal judge late Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to reunite all families separated at the border within 30 days. The children taken from their parents now live and wait […]
June 18th, 2018
Eureka housekeepers call on hospitals to dump cleaning solution that is making them sick
Sick of being forced to work with cleaning chemicals that make them ill, housekeepers at St. Joseph Eureka and Redwood Memorial hospitals took to the streets Monday to demand their hospitals switch cleaning solutions. The June 18 protest outside St. Joseph Eureka was covered by NBC3 and the Lost Coast Outpost. For the last two […]
June 11th, 2018
NUHW members picket Kindred San Diego Hospital
Caregivers picketed Kindred San Diego Monday to inform the public about chronic turnover and understaffing at the city’s second largest long-term acute care hospital. Chanting “What’s it about, patient care!” the caregivers demanded a new contract with raises to stem the exodus of caregivers. Although Kentucky-based Kindred posted a $67.6 million profit in 2016, its […]
June 11th, 2018
News of the Week: Suicide rates rose nationwide since 1999
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: 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. […]
May 31st, 2018
Sodexo workers picket Los Alamitos Medical Center
Nearly 50 housekeepers at Los Alamitos Medical Center staged a one-day picket demanding that their employer Sodexo, an international subcontracting firm, dramatically increase wages, improve benefits and put an end to short staffing. The May 29 picket came just weeks after NUHW-represented Sodexo workers at nearby Fountain Valley Regional Hospital won a contract that provided […]