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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...
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...
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 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...
Caregivers protest Salinas Valley Memorial’s demand for cuts despite huge profits April 18, 2016 More than 150 NUHW members at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital (SVMH), along with CNA RNs and their families, held a...
800 NUHW members win on all issues at University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital April 18, 2016 Following a one-day strike in early February and just days before a three-day strike was set to begin, the University...
University of Southern California hides behind subcontractor to pay poverty wages April 18, 2016 One hundred NUHW food service workers at the University of Southern California’s Keck Hospital are fighting for a fair contract...
Workers’ rights board holds hearing on conditions at St. Joseph’s Sonoma County hospitals April 18, 2016 NUHW members at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and Petaluma Valley Hospital testified before the North Bay Jobs With Justice Workers’...