August 31st, 2015
NUHW members have ratified nine contracts this year
NUHW members have ratified nine contracts so far this year. Members at two Orange County hospitals, Kindred Brea and Kindred Westminster, ratified first contracts in July and August. These contracts included across-the-board wage increases of at least 4% this year, a bonus this year of at least 1%, plus a 2% wage increase next year […]
August 27th, 2015
Kaiser mental health under scrutiny again following suicide
Kaiser Permanente’s failures to provide timely mental health care have made the news several times in recent weeks. First, there was the tragic suicide of a Santa Rosa woman suffering from depression. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that Barbara Ragan, two days after being told by Kaiser that she should have to wait eight […]
August 21st, 2015
Caregivers hold second strike at San Francisco Nursing Center
Fifty NUHW-represented caregivers at San Francisco Nursing Center went on strike for two days, Thursday and Friday, August 20 and 21, to protest drastic unilateral cuts made to their healthcare coverage by the facility’s new owner, Utah-based Providence Group, Inc. (See slideshow and video below.) Workers picketed in front of the facility at 5767 Mission Street […]
August 21st, 2015
Caregivers at Brius-owned San Rafael Healthcare and Wellness protest poor conditions for patients, workers
Sixty NUHW-represented caregivers at Marin County’s San Rafael Healthcare and Wellness Center went on strike for two days to protest the facility’s low standards of patient care and poor working conditions. (See slideshow below.) The facility’s owner, Brius Healthcare Services, “has been slapped with a flurry of citations and penalties by government regulators,” as the […]
August 19th, 2015
San Rafael Healthcare and Wellness Center workers to strike Thursday and Friday, August 20 and 21
Caregivers protest poor and deteriorating patient care conditions, drastic cuts to healthcare coverage and other benefits, and wages that have stagnated for four years Facility’s owner, Brius Healthcare, California’s largest and operator of nursing homes, accused of “flagrant disregard for human life” in Sacramento Bee investigative series SAN RAFAEL — Sixty NUHW-represented caregivers at San […]