December 7th, 2020
Will hospitals ignore California’s new COVID testing requirement?
California’s first-in-the-nation weekly COVID testing requirement for hospital workers starts this week Despite a staffing crisis and surging caseloads will hospitals ignore it? Amid a surge that threatens to overwhelm California’s chronically understaffed hospitals, state health officials are launching the nation’s most rigorous COVID-19 testing regimen for hospital workers. Beginning today, Dec. 7, hospitals are […]
December 2nd, 2020
Daily Pilot: NUHW members reflect on hard-fought COVID-19 testing victory
NUHW members have played an important part in securing weekly COVID-19 testing for hospital workers in California. At Fountain Valley Regional Hospital where Armando Rodriguez, a radiology technician, died of COVID-19 earlier this month, workers held three rallies calling for stronger COVID-19 protections, including regular testing for themselves and mandatory testing for their patients upon […]
December 1st, 2020
LA Times: Weekly COVID testing for hospital workers to have major impact
California’s new COVID-19 testing requirements will have a major impact on hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers. The Los Angeles Times covers the impact this will have on workers at acute-care hospitals throughout the state: “It’s a huge victory that will save lives,” said Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which […]
December 1st, 2020
Politico: State’s NUHW-backed Covid testing mandate draws hospital industry’s ire
NUHW members have won our fight for comprehensive COVID-19 testing requirements covering acute care hospitals. Politico published a story about the California Department of Public Health’s first-in-the-nation regulations mandating weekly COVID-19 testing for acute care hospital workers — and the hospital industry’s resistance to the new requirements. Carmela Coyle, executive director of the California Hospital […]
July 14th, 2020
Nearly 800 workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital to strike for five days starting July 20
UPDATE: We’ve received several letters of support from local politicians that Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital needs to treat its workers better. In retaliation, the highly-profitable hospital has declared it will reduce proposed wage increases in addition to cutting benefits and doubling the cost of employee healthcare For too long, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital has been […]