November 1st, 2019
Kaiser mental health strike
December 16-20, 2019 – 6am to 2pm Picket shifts are from 6 A.M. to 2 P.M. every day. There will be charter buses available to transport people to the Monday rally in San Francisco, the Tuesday rallies in Oakland and Los Angeles, and the Thursday rallies in Sacramento and at Kaiser’s Pasadena headquarters. Read the December […]
October 31st, 2019
News of the Month – October 2019
In the midst of the nation’s longest economic expansion, the separation between rich and poor is at a five-decade high. Cities like San Francisco and New York, which have a concentration of skilled workers in high-wage industries like tech and finance, experience higher levels of inequality than cities such as Detroit or Indianapolis, researchers at the […]
October 31st, 2019
Mental Health Clinicians establish round-the-clock vigils
In an escalation of their campaign to force Kaiser Permanente to fix its broken mental health system, Kaiser clinicians established an ongoing presence outside Kaiser’s corporate headquarters in Oakland and the Los Angeles Medical Center. Clinicians staked their claim to both locations in mid-October by unveiling 60-foot-long monuments that are adorned with some of the […]
October 31st, 2019
Kaiser clinicians stage mental health march in Oakland
Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, and social workers took to the streets Saturday, October 19 to protest Kaiser’s chronic failure to provide its patients with timely access to mental health care. The mental health clinicians, along with patients and community allies, gathered at Kaiser’s corporate headquarters in Oakland before marching down Grand Avenue to the eastern […]
October 31st, 2019
NUHW members help pass $15 minimum wage in Novato
The Novato City Council recently approved an ordinance that will require all businesses with more than 100 employees to pay at least $15 per hour starting July of 2020. This is a huge victory for our members who are housekeepers, kitchen workers and activities workers at Novato Healthcare Center. Many of them currently make $13 […]