May 25th, 2016
Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital caregivers on strike
Nearly seven hundred Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital caregivers held a one-day strike Tuesday, May 17, to protest understaffing, subcontracting of community jobs, denial of cost-of-living increases, rising cost of healthcare coverage, and mandatory overtime. The SVMH caregivers were supported on the picket line by the hospital’s CNA-represented RNs, the Teamsters, the Monterey Bay Central Labor […]
May 23rd, 2016
A Failure of Leadership at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
By Esther Fierros-Nuñez Published May 17, 2016 in the Salinas Californian In his May 14 op-ed in the Californian, Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital (SVMH) CEO Pete Delgado put an utterly disingenuous spin on the hospital’s stalled negotiations with 700 caregivers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Delgado characterized the hospital board’s decision […]
May 2nd, 2016
NUHW Pulse, May 2016
Welcome to the May 2016 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter. Humboldt County caregivers win huge victory NUHW members at St. Joseph Health’s Humboldt County hospitals won wage increases of nearly thirty percent over three years. Read more Video: What Has Become of St. Joseph’s Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital? Once the hospital of choice […]
May 2nd, 2016
Members at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister win 16% wage increases over four years
NUHW members at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital voted by ninety-eight percent in early February to ratify a second contract that will ensure them four percent wage increases each year of the four-year contract. The agreement also includes a 2.5 percent longevity increase for those with fifteen years at the hospital and another 2.5 percent for […]
April 29th, 2016
Around the Union: April 2016
Corizon NUHW members are having great success in pushing Alameda County to open up a competitive bidding process for healthcare services at the county’s jails. Corizon Health, a notorious for-profit prison healthcare provider, has won several renewals of its contract with the county with no competition and little oversight. Following two inmate deaths — one […]