February 2nd, 2017
Providence Tarzana workers picket against layoffs of SEIU-represented housekeepers
More than 75 Providence Tarzana Medical Center workers picketed the hospital January 16 demanding that management bring back more than two dozen SEIU-represented housekeepers with a combined 245 years of service. For years, the hospital had contracted out housekeeping work to outsourcing firms that paid poverty wages. Providence Tarzana finally brought these jobs in-house, but […]
February 2nd, 2017
NUHW members gather for statewide meetings
With a steady stream of executive orders signed in his tumultuous first week on the job, President Donald Trump has upended the lives of millions of immigrants and their familIes and cast a pall of uncertainty over our nation’s healthcare system. The new government taking shape in Washington D.C. will have major implications for us […]
December 21st, 2016
NUHW Pulse – December 2016: the latest news from NUHW
Welcome to the December 2016 year-end edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter! An extraordinary year for NUHW This short video highlights our organizing and contract victories from October 2015 to October 2016. Since then, we’ve organized more workers and settled more contracts. For more details, see the stories below. Read more Nearly 2,000 workers […]
December 21st, 2016
SEIU’s hypocritical call for democratic reform
When it comes to hypocrisy, Donald Trump may have finally met his match in SEIU — a labor union that fancies itself as his nemesis but actually shares his authoritarian tendencies. In a recent letter to the four candidates for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry suggested that union members […]
December 21st, 2016
Seton and Salinas: How member unity won strong contracts in 2016
NUHW members at Seton Medical Center and Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital waged two very different campaigns this year with two very different employers, but the results were the same: strong contracts that protect benefits, boost wages, and safeguard standards of patient care. In both campaigns, the deciding factor was member unity. At Seton Medical Center […]