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1,000 more workers at Alameda County Medical Center petition to join NUHW April 1, 2009 Caregivers reject SEIU Local 1021 after union officials pushed them to ratify an incomplete contract and give up their right...
Shop stewards fight back March 31, 2009 Despite SEIU’s desperate attempts to remove elected workplace leaders and destroy their union, stewards pledge to support their co-workers and...
Behind the News: Steve Early on labor’s prospects and SEIU’s rampage March 28, 2009 Segment begins at 39:15 — Click to listen On Behind the News, Doug Henwood interviews labor journalist Steve Early about...
Juan Gonzalez: SEIU president goes to the extreme March 25, 2009 Andy Stern, president of the powerful Service Employees International Union, seems hellbent on using classic corporate raider tactics to bring...
Video: Worker leaders share their vision March 25, 2009 Healthcare union stewards across California gathered in Los Angeles and San Francisco on February 28 to celebrate their victories and...
Seniors, people with disabilities, and their caregivers protest at Capitol to save homecare funding from budget “trigger” March 20, 2009 Cuts would cost California an estimated $460 million in economic activity CALIFORNIA—Hundreds of caregivers and healthcare consumers rallied in Sacramento,...
San Francisco Chronicle: Nursing home workers join new union March 19, 2009 About 350 employees at four Northern California nursing homes are the first workers to align with the National Union of...
Los Angeles Times: National Union of Healthcare Workers gets its first members March 18, 2009 A new Oakland-based union — the product of a brutal fight between the elected leaders of healthcare workers in Northern...
Sacramento Business Journal: 350 nursing home workers choose NUHW over SEIU March 18, 2009 More than 350 workers at three Sacramento-area nursing homes and one in Pacifica have chosen the National Union of Healthcare...
Workers protest Olympia Medical Center March 18, 2009 UPDATE: We won! All written warnings were removed from stewards’ files. Healthcare workers protested Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles...
350 nursing home workers win recognition of NUHW as their union March 17, 2009 “Healthcare workers need a voice in our union so we can stand up for ourselves and for the people who...
Caregivers win historic first recognition of National Union of Healthcare Workers March 17, 2009 With majority support, more than 350 nursing home workers become first to leave SEIU and win representation with NUHW SACRAMENTO—Workers...

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