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Eureka housekeepers call on hospitals to dump cleaning solution that is making them sick June 18, 2018 Sick of being forced to work with cleaning chemicals that make them ill, housekeepers at St. Joseph Eureka and Redwood...
Sodexo workers picket Los Alamitos Medical Center May 31, 2018 Nearly 50 housekeepers at Los Alamitos Medical Center staged a one-day picket demanding that their employer Sodexo, an international subcontracting...
NUHW members volunteer to elect allies in June Primary election May 25, 2018 As a social worker, Martha Rea is no stranger to knocking on a stranger’s door and striking up a conversation....
Member profile: Kari Helgeson May 25, 2018 Radiology tech Kari Helgeson credits her high school swim coach with teaching her about teamwork, something she has carried forward...
NUHW members agree to contract that will boost wages up to 42 percent by 2020 May 15, 2018 In another important step toward improving the lives of some of Southern California’s lowest-paid workers, caregivers represented by the National...
Op-ed: It’s time for Queen of the Valley to honor its workers’ right to unionize April 4, 2018 This op-ed by Napa County Democratic Central Committee Chairman G. Anthony Phillips was published April 3, 2018, in the Napa...
NUHW members testify on understaffed nursing homes in Marin County March 7, 2018 California’s largest nursing home company could be facing a campaign to wrest control of its two Marin County homes after...
Workers’ Rights Board to hold Sunday hearing on troubled Marin nursing homes March 1, 2018 The Workers’ Rights Board, a project of North Bay Jobs with Justice, is holding a public hearing on Sunday in...
NUHW staffing arbitration victory highlighted in San Francisco Examiner February 20, 2018 This opinion piece originally ran in the San Francisco Examiner: A victory for caregivers and patients As a patient care...
NUHW members rally in support of Dreamers February 16, 2018 About 30 NUHW members participated in a Feb. 6 rally outside their Oakland hospital supporting undocumented immigrants brought to the...
NUHW’s Kaiser fight discussed on labor podcast February 7, 2018 NUHW President Sal Rosselli and Clem Papazian, a psychiatric social worker at Kaiser Permanente, appeared on a leading labor podcast...
Video: Sodexo–Tenet workers have to recycle cans to make ends meet January 22, 2018 Full-time Sodexo workers at three Tenet Healthcare hospitals in Orange and Los Angeles counties have to recycle cans to make ends meet....