January 10th, 2018
NUHW members begin candidate interviews for political endorsements
NUHW has a well-deserved reputation for being an important player in state politics, and over the next few months our members will be interviewing candidates seeking our endorsement. Getting our allies elected to public office is critical to winning good contracts. Politicians hold sway over health care executives because so much of health care spending […]
January 10th, 2018
News of the Week: Two SoCal GOP congressmen announce retirement
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: Two of the seven congressional Republicans from California targeted for defeat this November have decided not to run for re-election, improving the odds that Democrats can pick up both […]
January 10th, 2018
NUHW won major organizing victories in 2017
Photo: Elk Grove Unified clinicians celebrate their organizing victory. NUHW kept growing in 2017. After numerous organizing victories, we surged to more than 14,000 members, while further cementing ourselves as the leading union for mental health clinicians. Our first victory of the year came in January at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland where 250 professionals […]
December 15th, 2017
Picket shines light on USC’s unequal treatment of healthcare clinic workers
More than 100 USC employees and their allies picketed outside university medical clinics Wednesday demanding a contract that ensures clinic workers receive the same pay and benefits as their counterparts at USC hospitals. Keck Medicine of USC provides its unionized hospital workers with fully paid health insurance, but has resisted extending the benefit to unionized […]
December 14th, 2017
NUHW members strike legal blow against attempted union busting
NUHW members at Queen of the Valley Medical Center won a major victory this month when a federal judge ordered the Napa hospital to resume good faith bargaining. At the behest of the National Labor Relations Board, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued an injunction requiring Queen of the Valley to bargain in […]