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Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital caregivers on strike May 25, 2016 Nearly seven hundred Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital caregivers held a one-day strike Tuesday, May 17, to protest understaffing, subcontracting of...
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...
NUHW Pulse, May 2016 May 2, 2016 Welcome to the May 2016 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter. Humboldt County caregivers win huge victory NUHW members...
Members at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister win 16% wage increases over four years May 2, 2016 NUHW members at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital voted by ninety-eight percent in early February to ratify a second contract that...
Around the Union: April 2016 April 29, 2016 Corizon NUHW members are having great success in pushing Alameda County to open up a competitive bidding process for healthcare...
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...
Bay Area NUHW members turn out for Labor for Bernie organizing rally April 29, 2016 NUHW chaired a Bay Area Labor for Bernie organizing rally April 22 in San Francisco. One hundred and fifty leaders...
NUHW members take part in biennial Labor Notes conference April 28, 2016 NUHW members participated in the biennial Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, Illinois April 1-3. Porfirio Quintano, a steward at Sutter’s California...
Report: How short staffing undermines patient care standards at Sonoma County’s St. Joseph hospitals April 24, 2016 Public Health Dept. records show deficiencies increased as St. Joseph cut staffing levels Company posted unprecedented profits while putting patients...
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 stewards advocate for Medicare for All, single-payer health care April 18, 2016 NUHW steward councils throughout the state are holding discussions about the kind of change we want for the broken U.S....
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...

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