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NUHW In the News

SF Business Times: NLRB sets Sept. 13 as start for giant Kaiser Permanente union election July 31, 2010 By Chris Rauber The National Labor Relations Board has set Sept. 13 as the start date for a by-mail union...
BeyondChron: Unite Here Local 2 workers and NUHW in struggles against Kaiser July 26, 2010 By Randy Shaw In the largest internal hotel protest in San Francisco history, nearly 300 UNITE HERE Local 2 workers...
ZNet: Huge election for Kaiser workers, 45,000 set to vote July 8, 2010 By Cal Winslow The new National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) has filed petitions representing tens of thousands of Kaiser...
Sacramento Business Journal: Kaiser workers petition for vote to change unions July 1, 2010 By Kathy Robertson Kaiser workers launched what could be the biggest labor battle in decades when they filed petitions Tuesday...
In These Times: California union rebels demand biggest labor board vote in seven decades June 30, 2010 By Steve Early At the Bay Area NUHW press briefing, hosted by UNITE HERE Local 2, Kaiser workers explained why...
KPFA Radio: 45,000 Kaiser healthcare workers file for election June 30, 2010 KPFA radio interviews Kaiser San Francisco caregiver George Wong as 45,000 Kaiser workers file petition for an election to join...
KPFA: Labor board rejects SEIU charges and prepares to schedule elections for thousands to join NUHW June 20, 2010 KPFA interviews Alta Bates Summit Medical Center worker Beverly Griffith about the coming elections for tens of thousands of California...
The Nation: the SEIU Andy Stern leaves behind June 16, 2010 By Max Fraser In the late 1990s and early 2000s the union began to embrace new strategies to meet Stern’s...
Green 960 Labor Report: Kaiser IBHS filing June 8, 2010 Green 960 Labor Report interviews Kaiser Permanente IBHS Chapter member Emily Ryan about IBHS chapter members’ filing of majority petitions...
ZNet: The Battle for Kaiser: SEIU calls for WWIII June 8, 2010 By Cal Winslow SEIU has already rushed through a sweetheart deal, a tentative contract with Kaiser. It has agreed to...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Judge upholds Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital union vote June 4, 2010 By Martin Espinoza An administrative law judge has rejected Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital’s allegations that improper election tactics were used...
Sacramento Business Journal: Kaiser mental health workers petition for election June 3, 2010 By Kathy Robertson A majority of 1,300 Northern California mental health professionals at Kaiser Permanente have signed a petition calling...