April 24th, 2017
Napa’s Queen of the Valley Hospital fights NUHW election result in federal court
Providence St. Joseph-owned Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa, Calif., is wasting money to prevent its caregivers from unionizing rather than investing in patient care and lowering its infection rate — which has already cost the hospital $2 million in Medicare funding. It’s time for Queen administrators to respect our caregivers and fix our […]
April 21st, 2017
Psychiatric RNs win staffing grievance
Appropriate staffing and obtaining coverage for absences have been longstanding issues for NUHW Psychiatric nurses working in Kaiser’s San Diego service area. Citing budget constraints, Kaiser management there has routinely failed to backfill our RNs when they have to be away from work, leaving the remaining nurses unfairly overburdened on a regular basis. In response […]
April 21st, 2017
Clinicians pilot new communications platform
Stewards and members in IBHS, our union’s Northern California unit of Kaiser mental health clinicians, have been testing a new online communications platform called Mobilize. IBHS stewards have long wanted a new communications tool, beyond a Google group, to communicate more efficiently with each other and with their members, who are scattered across dozens of […]
April 18th, 2017
NUHW members demand Trump’s tax returns
Dozens of National Union of Healthcare Workers members joined thousands of marchers April 15 to demand that Donald Trump release his tax returns. Without his returns, Americans are in the dark about Trump’s conflicts of interest, his foreign entanglements, and how the major changes to the tax code that he is seeking would further enrich […]
April 15th, 2017
NUHW Pulse – April 2017: the latest news from NUHW
Welcome to the April 2017 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter! Dozens of Keck USC workers join NUHW More than 60 workers at Keck Medical Center at the University of Southern California voted overwhelmingly to join NUHW in the past month. NUHW now represents more than 1,000 healthcare workers at USC. Read more Members can count […]