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Kaiser Healthcare Pros

California Kaiser mental health clinicians vote to go on strike until HMO adequately staffs its psychiatric units, ends retaliation against whistleblowers October 22, 2015 In move to protect patients, 1,500 California Kaiser mental health clinicians vote to go on strike until HMO adequately staffs...
No More Suicides! Neoliberalism on the Kaiser Couch October 16, 2015 By Cal Winslow (Click here to see the story on CounterPunch) It was unnerving, last winter, marching in downtown Oakland,...
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...
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...
No More Kaiser Suicides: Coalition of advocacy groups launches social media campaign August 31, 2015 No More Kaiser Suicides is a social media campaign created in partnership with Courage Campaign and the East Bay chapter...