December 18th, 2015
New Organizing: Novato Healthcare Center, Petaluma Valley Hospital, Alta Bates Summit
Workers at Novato Healthcare Center vote to join NUHW One hundred and sixty workers at Novato Healthcare Center, Marin County’s largest nursing home, voted in October to join NUHW. Among the issues that led workers to organize are understaffing that results in poor patient care and low wages that leave workers struggling to get by […]
December 18th, 2015
NUHW participates in Berlin labor conference
By NUHW Organizer Marilyn Albert, RN It is a tribute to NUHW’s history and principles that we were invited, for a second time, to join German health workers in a conference in Berlin that brought together hospital workers, home care workers from different European countries, political activists, and elected officials from the most progressive political […]
December 18th, 2015
NUHW members at Alameda County jails win $350,000 settlement over missed meal periods
In October, healthcare workers at Alameda County’s jails — Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and the Glenn E. Dyer Detention Facility in Oakland — overwhelmingly ratified a settlement that stewards negotiated with Corizon, the for-profit subcontractor responsible for providing healthcare to inmates at the two facilities. The $350,000 settlement compensates 130 workers for missed or […]
December 18th, 2015
A message from the NUHW Retirees Committee
By Melinda Ginne In the fall of 2015 a group of NUHW retirees came together to form a retirees group. We are a voluntary email listserv that is maintained and moderated by NUHW retirees so that we can connect with each other and share information. This group is for all NUHW workers throughout California, regardless […]
December 18th, 2015
Labor Board certifies NUHW election victory at Seton Medical Center, Seton Coastside
On November 2, in a clear demonstration of the inefficient, anti-worker procedural policies of the National Labor Relations Board and the cynicism and corruption of the Service Employees International Union, healthcare workers at Seton Medical Center in Daly City and Seton Coastside in Moss Beach finally received certification of their union election — 19 months […]