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Hospitals aren’t doing enough to keep frontline healthcare workers safe as California COVID cases surge past 2 million December 30, 2020 Staffing shortages, lack of PPE, and failure to offer COVID-19 tests are major challenges for workers in hospitals across the state...
News of the Month — December 2020 December 28, 2020 Note: Some of these stories may require a subscription.  NUHW Members at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital gave interviews to the...
COVID victory at county jails December 28, 2020 After several weeks of negotiations, NUHW members who work at county jails in Alameda, Stanislaus, and Sonoma counties reached a...
NUHW E-board recommends all members take COVID-19 vaccine December 28, 2020 NUHW’s member-led Executive Board this month voted to recommend that all NUHW members take the vaccine, unless there is a...
NUHW members save thousands of mental health appointments in San Bernardino December 28, 2020 Thanks to the forceful intervention of their stewards, Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians  have halted a dangerous proposal in San...
Confronting a surge, NUHW members demand reforms at West Anaheim Medical Center December 28, 2020 NUHW members at West Anaheim Medical Center are facing a surge of COVID-19 patients while dealing with severe understaffing and...
Santa Rosa Memorial workers win four-year contract December 28, 2020 NUHW members at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital voted 98 percent this month to ratify a new contract, ending a campaign...
Amid vaccinations, NUHW members sound the alarm about mounting COVID-19 crisis December 28, 2020 California is in the midst of a mounting COVID-19 crisis at the same time that NUHW members and healthcare workers...
NUHW urges members to get Covid vaccine December 14, 2020 Healthcare workers are first in line to get the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. But will some be hesitant to take it?...
Will hospitals ignore California’s new COVID testing requirement? December 7, 2020 California’s first-in-the-nation weekly COVID testing requirement for hospital workers starts this week Despite a staffing crisis and surging caseloads will...
Daily Pilot: NUHW members reflect on hard-fought COVID-19 testing victory December 2, 2020 NUHW members have played an important part in securing weekly COVID-19 testing for hospital workers in California. At Fountain Valley...
LA Times: Weekly COVID testing for hospital workers to have major impact December 1, 2020 California’s new COVID-19 testing requirements will have a major impact on hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers. The Los Angeles...

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