April 26th, 2017
Healthcare workers picket Fountain Valley Regional Hospital
More than 200 caregivers picketed outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital & Medical Center Tuesday demanding a contract that provides competitive wages and ends the hospital’s exploitation of part-time and on-call workers. NBC4 and OC Weekly covered the picket. Click here for a link to the OC Weekly story. Fountain Valley workers joined NUHW last year, frustrated that […]
April 26th, 2017
NUHW wins legal case against California’s largest nursing home operator
California’s largest nursing home operator must rehire and provide tens of thousands of dollars in back pay to five employees it illegally fired from its Novato, Calif. facility just two days before a 2015 vote to unionize. Judge Amita Baman Tracy ruled Friday that Novato Healthcare Center violated federal labor law when it “discriminatorily suspended […]
April 24th, 2017
NUHW members to picket Orange County’s largest for-profit hospital April 25
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nearly 600 healthcare workers to hold a one-day informational picket Tuesday outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital. FOUNTAIN VALLEY — Nearly one year after unionizing, caregivers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) will picket Orange County’s largest for-profit hospital Tuesday demanding a contract that provides competitive wages and ends the […]
April 19th, 2017
Children’s Hospital Oakland workers ratify contract
Service and technical workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a contract that will guarantee them raises of at least 14 percent through 2019. The contract, approved earlier this month, provides a retroactive 3 percent raise for 2016, another 3 percent raise this year, and 4 percent raises in 2018 […]
February 16th, 2017
Shlomo Rechnitz: “Misplaced Priorities at 40,000 feet”
The National Union of Healthcare Workers published a report Wednesday detailing how the CEO of California’s largest nursing home company, Brius Healthcare, spent an estimated $8 million on a luxury jet even as his company pays poverty-level wages to caregivers and racks up hundreds of patient-care violations. The four-page paper, “Misplaced Priorities at 40,000 Feet,” […]