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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...
Hartford Courant: ‘Free choice’ must mean switching unions, too March 16, 2009 Although the loss of the secret ballot may expose workers to various forms of intimidation, there is something attractive about...
Fresno homecare workers march on SEIU UHW-W March 13, 2009 On March 12, Fresno homecare workers rallied and marched on the SEIU UHW-W office to protest SEIU’s retaliation and interference...
KPFK interview with John Borsos and Danielle Estrada March 12, 2009 Maria Armoudian on KPFK’s “Insighters” interviews John Borsos of NUHW’s founding executive board and Danielle Estrada, a healthcare worker at...
Video: Fresno homecare workers announce petition to join NUHW March 12, 2009 On March 2, homecare workers filed petitions for 10,000 to leave SEIU and join NUHW.
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center: Fresno Homecare Workers, Consumers, and Community Members March against SEIU Harassment March 12, 2009 About 60 homecare workers and their allies rallied in front of the Service Employees International Union-UHW office in Fresno today....
Caregivers picket O’Connor Hospital for arresting union reps and shutting down democratic vote March 10, 2009 San Jose, Calif.—Healthcare workers picketed outside O’Connor Hospital today to protest the actions of hospital management, who suspended an Emergency...
Counterpunch: Stern’s SEIU vs. breakaway healthcare workers March 5, 2009 United Healthcare Workers-West was the kind of union we need in California – more, it was in historian Nelson Lichtenstein’s...

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