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Providence Tarzana picketers demand housekeepers get their jobs back January 19, 2017 More than 75 Providence Tarzana workers picketed the hospital Monday demanding that management bring back more than two dozen housekeepers...
Petaluma Valley Hospital workers demand next operator preserve quality care and jobs January 17, 2017 Workers at Petaluma Valley Hospital are urging the hospital’s elected board of directors to be transparent in searching for a...
Tarzana workers picket against mass layoff January 12, 2017 TARZANA, CALIF. — Workers are picketing Providence Tarzana Medical Center on Monday to protest the hospital’s effective termination of roughly half its...
NUHW Pulse – December 2016: the latest news from NUHW December 21, 2016 Welcome to the December 2016 year-end edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter! An extraordinary year for NUHW This short...
Seton and Salinas: How member unity won strong contracts in 2016 December 21, 2016 NUHW members at Seton Medical Center and Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital waged two very different campaigns this year with two...
2016 year in review — contract victories and bargaining updates December 21, 2016 NUHW had a hugely successful bargaining year, winning 16 contracts covering 8,000 members. We are currently bargaining seven more contracts....
NUHW members campaign for union-endorsed issues and candidates December 21, 2016 With a busy primary season and historic November general election, NUHW members tirelessly worked the phones and hit the streets...
KQED’s in-depth coverage of mental health care in California December 21, 2016 KQED Radio health reporter April Dembosky produced an excellent series of stories delving into the obstacles that confront patients seeking...
A recap of the NUHW’s 2016 Leadership Conference December 21, 2016 Nearly 300 stewards from throughout California gathered in Oakland in October for NUHW’s fourth annual Leadership Conference. We reviewed our...
NUHW ousts Corizon from Alameda County jails, wins contract with CFMG December 21, 2016 NUHW-represented caregivers at Santa Rita Jail and Glenn Dyer Detention Facility ousted the nation’s largest for-profit correctional healthcare provider, Corizon...
Nearly 2,000 workers joined NUHW in the past year December 21, 2016 In 2016, we organized more than 1,800 workers in five facilities throughout California, winning nine elections in new and residual...
419 Napa caregivers vote to join National Union of Healthcare Workers November 17, 2016 Healthcare workers at St. Joseph Health System’s Queen of the Valley Hospital join 1,300 NUHW-represented caregivers at four other Northern...