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Kaiser Healthcare Pros

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...
NUHW Pulse: September 2015 September 1, 2015 Welcome to NUHW Pulse, our union’s new e-newsletter. It has been a busy time for NUHW — our members have...
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...
NUHW members have ratified nine contracts this year August 31, 2015 NUHW members have ratified nine contracts so far this year. Members at two Orange County hospitals, Kindred Brea and Kindred...
Kaiser mental health under scrutiny again following suicide August 27, 2015 Kaiser Permanente’s failures to provide timely mental health care have made the news several times in recent weeks. First, there...
Strict limits on mental health care still common for California patients August 13, 2015 National Public Radio’s Here and Now aired this story by reporter Jenny Gold about the failure of Kaiser Permanente and...