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Alta Bates Summit election ballots impounded pending investigation of misconduct by SEIU, Sutter Health, and an NLRB agent December 10, 2015 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has impounded the ballots following a Dec. 8-9 union election at Alta Bates Summit...
Keck workers picket for patient safety! November 18, 2015 [slideshow_deploy id=’7591′] Keck USC workers at Keck Medical Center of USC with Sodexo Keck workers and Keck RNs for an informational picket...
Kaiser mental health strike averted November 15, 2015 Clinicians reach tentative agreement with Kaiser on patient care standards, other issues OAKLAND — Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians represented...
Patrick J. Kennedy to join mental health clinicians on the picket line in San Francisco as strike starts Monday, Nov. 16 November 13, 2015 PATRICK J. KENNEDY TO JOIN MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIANS ON THE PICKET LINE IN SAN FRANCISCO AS STRIKE BEGINS AT 50...
Kaiser harassing, intimidating mental health workers in advance of strike November 13, 2015 Despite its legal obligation to provide care during a strike, Kaiser is conducting blanket cancellations of therapy appointments HMO using...
Report: Kaiser violated state law by restraining psychiatric patient 108 times in two months  October 28, 2015 California Department of Public Health cites state’s largest HMO for excessive and unwarranted use of restraints Investigation of Kaiser’s inpatient...
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...
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...