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Workplaces

Picket shines light on USC’s unequal treatment of healthcare clinic workers December 15, 2017 More than 100 USC employees and their allies picketed outside university medical clinics Wednesday demanding a contract that ensures clinic...
NUHW members strike legal blow against attempted union busting December 14, 2017 NUHW members at Queen of the Valley Medical Center won a major victory this month when a federal judge ordered...
Queen of the Valley caregiver calls on hospital to stop fighting its own workers November 28, 2017 This opinion piece by NUHW member Ray Herrera originally ran in the Nov. 17 edition of the Napa County Register....
Video: How Brius nursing home tycoon Shlomo Rechnitz bilks seniors, taxpayers November 17, 2017 Watch how billionaire nursing home tycoon Shlomo Rechnitz bilks seniors and taxpayers by shifting Medicare and Medi-Cal dollars from his Brius nursing homes...
Gavin Newsom discusses NUHW, unions, and single-payer health care at 2018 Governor Candidate Debate October 24, 2017 Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom discussed NUHW as a model union and the importance of labor unions, and voice his support...
NUHW launches campaign to lift poverty wages October 16, 2017 NUHW members at the University of Southern California are fighting to raise wages for workers whose jobs are subcontracted to...
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland workers ratify contract October 16, 2017 Business office and clerical workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland voted 98 percent October 12 in favor of a...
NUHW clinicians address National Press Club September 25, 2017 Jackie Schalit and Ken Rogers became the first NUHW members to address reporters at the National Press Club in Washington,...
Trouble in Napa: Hospital Workers Fight for their Union September 14, 2017 This story by Cal Winslow originally ran in Beyond Chron. Here is the story of David v. Goliath, again; the...
Community and caregivers stand united at Napa vigil August 28, 2017 As Queen of the Valley Medical Center executives faced charges in a San Francisco courtroom of coercing workers and withdrawing...
Dominican Hospital therapists join NUHW August 24, 2017 NUHW’s rapid growth continued in Santa Cruz this week when 98 physical, occupational and speech therapists at Dignity Health Dominican...
Thursday: Vigil planned outside Napa hospital facing federal complaint for coercing workers August 23, 2017 As a hearing wraps up in federal court into allegations that Queen of the Valley Medical Center executives coerced employees...