July 21st, 2015
San Francisco Nursing Center caregivers strike over cuts to healthcare coverage
SFNC healthcare workers protest new owner’s unethical labor practices Community leaders will join fifty workers on picket line at Mission District’s long-term care facility on Wednesday, July 22 SAN FRANCISCO — Fifty NUHW-represented caregivers at San Francisco Nursing Center will strike for one day, Wednesday, July 22, and picket in front of the facility at 5767 […]
July 6th, 2015
Humboldt County NUHW members discuss St. Joseph’s low wages on KHSU’s Thursday Night Talk
St. Joseph Eureka healthcare workers Kellie Shaner and Allen McCloskey, along with NUHW Lead Negotiator Charlie Ridgell, discussed St. Joseph Health System’s low wages July 2 in a one-hour interview on KHSU’s Thursday Night Talk. Click here to listen. The show was prompted by the release of NUHW’s report, Uncompensated Care: How St. Joseph Health’s Low Wages […]
July 3rd, 2015
Report: Uncompensated Care: How St. Joseph Health’s Low Wages Leave Caregivers Behind
In May, Humboldt County healthcare workers hosted a community discussion and unveiled a new report, Uncompensated Care: How St. Joseph Health’s Low Wages Leave Caregivers Behind. The report documents the harmful effects of low wages paid at the county’s two St. Joseph Health System hospitals and analyzes the far-reaching consequences of St. Joseph’s employment practices, including risks […]
July 1st, 2015
“Corporate Collaborator” Dave Regan undercut by SEIU International; SEIU-UHW members caught in crossfire
“In the labor movement, there are two kinds of leaders — those who fight big corporations, and those who collaborate with them,” Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court wrote in the Huffington Post this week. “The poster child for the collaborators just had half his membership taken away. “David Regan, head of United Healthcare Workers West, […]
July 1st, 2015
Pawns in SEIU’s Game
By Cal Winslow (Originally published by CounterPunch, BeyondChron, and ZNet.) California’s healthcare unions are being reorganized. Again! The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), still the country’s second biggest union at just under 2 million members, has announced the creation of a new local union: statewide Local 2015 with 280,000 members, now set to be the […]