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NUHW In the News

A Failure of Leadership at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital May 23, 2016 By Esther Fierros-Nuñez Published May 17,  2016 in the Salinas Californian In his May 14 op-ed in the Californian, Salinas...
Humboldt County St. Joseph workers win 30 percent wage increase over three years April 29, 2016 After an eighteen-month struggle, NUHW-represented healthcare workers at St. Joseph Health System’s Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna and St. Joseph...
NUHW’s Kaiser mental health clinicians to be honored with United in Courage Award April 18, 2016 NUHW’s Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians — psychologists, psychiatric social workers, therapists, and psychiatric nurses working at hundreds of Kaiser...
NUHW joins the No Coal In Oakland movement April 18, 2016 Kirstin Quinn–Siegel, a marriage and family therapist in NUHW’s Kaiser IBHS bargaining unit, joined other Oakland medical professionals at a...
Fox interviews NUHW President Sal Rosselli about labor’s support for Bernie Sanders March 18, 2016 Fox’s Neil Cavuto interviewed NUHW President Sal Rosselli about labor’s support for Bernie Sanders on both March 11 and March...
900 caregivers on strike at Keck Hospital of USC February 10, 2016 Just hours before 900 NUHW members at the University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital went on strike, they got a...
Corizon under fire for mass layoffs at Alameda County’s jails January 8, 2016 Corizon, the notorious for-profit corporation that provides healthcare services to inmates at Alameda County’s jails, is under fire abruptly laying...
49 nurses fired at Alameda County jails January 7, 2016 By Dan Lawton Contra Costa Times January 7, 2016 DUBLIN — A private health care provider with a checkered past...
Around the Union, December 2015: News and views from throughout NUHW December 18, 2015 Keck–USC caregivers overwhelmingly reject hospital’s contract proposal, authorize strike On December 11 Friday, December 11, hundreds of workers at Keck...
Alta Bates Summit election ballots impounded pending investigation of misconduct by SEIU, Sutter Health, and an NLRB agent December 10, 2015 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has impounded the ballots following a Dec. 8-9 union election at Alta Bates Summit...
California Kaiser mental health clinicians vote to go on strike until HMO adequately staffs its psychiatric units, ends retaliation against whistleblowers October 22, 2015 In move to protect patients, 1,500 California Kaiser mental health clinicians vote to go on strike until HMO adequately staffs...
No More Suicides! Neoliberalism on the Kaiser Couch October 16, 2015 By Cal Winslow (Click here to see the story on CounterPunch) It was unnerving, last winter, marching in downtown Oakland,...