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NUHW endorses Bernie Sanders for president of the United States October 13, 2015 Thank you to the nearly two hundred elected rank-and-file leaders of NUHW for a successful 2015 Leadership Conference! (See the...
National Union of Healthcare Workers endorses Bernie Sanders for president October 12, 2015 PASADENA — Nearly 200 elected rank-and-file leaders representing 11,000 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers voted 72% to...
NUHW Pulse — October 2015: The latest news from NUHW October 8, 2015 Welcome to the October 2015 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s  e-newsletter. Video: Portrait of an NUHW leader: Eloise Reese-Burns...
Help save the NUHW-CNA affiliation October 7, 2015 Top officials at the California Nurses Association are trying to dissolve the affiliation agreement that NUHW members overwhelmingly voted for...
Los Angeles Times story: “His 83-year-old wife jumped to her death from a Kaiser clinic — why?” October 7, 2015 The Los Angeles Times published a story in September about the tragic suicide of Barbara Ragan, the Santa Rosa woman...
Two upcoming union elections in Northern California October 7, 2015 Novato Healthcare Center election next week Workers at Brius-owned Novato Healthcare Center, a Marin County nursing home, will have an...
Around the union: News and views from throughout NUHW October 7, 2015 Red Day at Hazel Hawkins Members at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister showed their colors Friday, October 2, wearing...
Members form NUHW Retirees Committee October 7, 2015 Northern California NUHW retirees invite our colleagues in Southern California to join us in building a union-wide Retirees Committee. The...
Video: Eloise Reese-Burns, profile of an NUHW leader October 7, 2015 Eloise Reese-Burns has been a leader in NUHW from the beginning in 2009, and well before that in SEIU–UHW and...
Contract updates: VNA Santa Cruz contract settled, Kaiser breaks the law with Optical contract October 7, 2015 After nearly two years of negotiations and a final marathon bargaining session that went well into the night, the social...
Kaiser Permanente misleads press, public in attempt to blunt negative publicity stemming from class-action lawsuit September 18, 2015 HMO’s press release makes misleading claims about staffing, new hiring in Kaiser’s mental health departments Damage-control effort is response to...
Corizon’s for-profit prison healthcare under scrutiny September 12, 2015 Following the death of Mario Martinez while in custody at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, KPFA Radio of Berkeley aired...

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