July 2024 PULSE

In July, NUHW members ratified contracts that significantly increase salaries and reduce health care costs at Stockton Unified School District and further boosts salaries at Richmond Area Multi-Services, forced Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii to pay an additional $1,500 in performance bonuses and passed a resolution by the California Labor Federation declaring organized labor’s support for our contract campaign against Kaiser in Southern California.

You can read all the stories below, including a member profile of Ashley Christensen.

Stockton Unified School District workers ratify first union contract
The three-year agreement will save some workers more than $7,000 per year on health insurance costs, while raising salaries and reducing the number of work days. Read more / Lee más

RAMS workers win additional pay raises
NUHW members at the nonprofit mental health provider will get an additional three percent raise and become more involved in helping their employer secure additional funding. Read more / Lee más

Member profile: Ashley Christensen
The Physical Therapist at Visiting Nurses Association of Santa Cruz is an exercise enthusiast who helped lead her coworkers in the bargaining of their new contract. Read more / Lee más

Hawai’i workers make Kaiser pay full performance bonus
When Kaiser claimed that mental health professionals in Hawai’i only qualified for a portion of their $5,000 performance bonus, they showed that Kaiser was crunching numbers incorrectly and won their full bonus. Read more / Lee más

Labor Fed passes NUHHW resolution on Kaiser
With contract bargaining set to begin for NUHW-represented mental health professionals in Southern California, the California Labor Federation passed a resolution calling on Kaiser to bargain a fair contract. Read more / Lee más