April 4th, 2018
NUHW op-ed: Stop Trump from discriminating against patients on ‘moral grounds’
This op-ed originally appeared in the April 3, 2018, edition of the Mercury News. Caregivers must advocate for patients, not discriminate against them. I’ve seen firsthand how people suffer when health care workers discriminate against patients on “moral grounds,” as President Donald Trump is now giving them the green light to do. During the height […]
February 7th, 2018
News of the Month: February 2018
Our Feb. 1 Sodexo worker strike outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital was covered by Southern California’s top publications, including the Los Angeles Times. The Orange County Register ran an op-ed supporting the cause of striking workers and OC Weekly covered the strike after publishing a separate story highlighting the plight of workers seeking their first union contracts. […]
February 7th, 2018
NUHW’s Kaiser fight discussed on labor podcast
NUHW President Sal Rosselli and Clem Papazian, a psychiatric social worker at Kaiser Permanente, appeared on a leading labor podcast this month to discuss our five-year fight to improve access to mental health care at the nation’s largest HMO. Host Jonathan Tasini lauded NUHW’s campaign as “social movement unionism at its best,” during the 25-minute […]
February 2nd, 2018
Fountain Valley Sodexo workers on strike
Scores of striking housekeepers and cafeteria workers along with dozens of allies sent a strong message to Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Sodexo that they will no longer accept poverty wages, unaffordable health insurance, and short staffing. The February 1 one-day strike outside Orange County’s largest for-profit hospital drew numerous elected officials including Santa Ana […]
January 31st, 2018
Sodexo Fountain Valley strike generates advance media coverage
The February 1 strike by NUHW-represented Sodexo workers at Tenet Healthcare’s Fountain Valley Regional Hospital generated advance coverage in all three newspapers that serve Orange County. OC Weekly kicked things off on January 23. The Orange County Register published an op-ed (below) on Januray 25. And the Daily Pilot, a Los Angeles Times-owned paper, published […]