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NUHW In the News

Health care workers at two Woodland nursing homes vote to leave Service Employees International Union and join rival NUHW March 26, 2011 By Mark Glover The Sacramento Bee March 25, 2011 Workers at Woodland Nursing & Rehabilitation and the Cottonwood Healthcare Center...
Kaiser nurses threaten SoCal strike February 17, 2011 By Kathy Robertson Tuesday, February 15, 2011 The Sacramento Business Journal Hundreds of nurses at Kaiser Permanente’s flagship Los Angeles Medical...
USC University Hospital nurses and staff picket amid contract negotiations February 17, 2011 By Molly Hennessy-Fiske The Los Angeles Times February 15, 2011 About a 100 USC University Hospital nurses and medical staff picketed outside...
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: 1,500 Kaiser workers join NUHW November 13, 2010 By Elizabeth Kim About 1,500 Kaiser mental health professionals and optical workers in Northern California have voted to leave the...
Fresno Bee: Kaiser Fresno workers vote to join union November 12, 2010 Kaiser mental health professionals and optical workers voted Wednesday to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The election involved...
Monterey County Herald: New union to push back against Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital job cuts November 5, 2010 By Jim Johnson A newly certified workers union at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital is promising to fight hospital administrators’ plans...
Monterey County Weekly: Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital workers union election is finally settled. NUHW wins. November 2, 2010 By Robin Urevich The National Union of Health care Workers has pledged to push back against staff reductions at Salinas...
CounterPunch: How the SEIU won in California October 12, 2010 Big Money, the Big Lie and Fear By Cal Winslow The vote, 18,290 for SEIU, 11,364 for NUHW, was expected...
KQED’s California Money on Kaiser Permanente election September 23, 2010
KPFA Radio: Labor journalist Steve Early discusses the Kaiser election September 19, 2010 Labor journalist Steve Early discusses the historic Kaiser election with KPFA Radio’s Sunday Show. This 30-minute excerpt is from an...
Huffington Post: NUHW v SEIU, Kaiser workers prepare to make history September 9, 2010 By Shirley Nelson As Kaiser workers forming NUHW, we’ve built a website called Kaisercoworkers.org, to answer all of those questions...
Labor Notes: Decisive showdown which union will Kaiser workers choose? September 9, 2010 By Mark Brenner Alongside its take-no-prisoners organizing on the shop floor, SEIU is touting the two-year contract signed in June,...