October 31st, 2019
Keck Dermatology and Internal Medicine workers join Ambulatory contract
Workers in the Internal Medicine and Dermatology Clinics at USC Keck Medical Center voted last week to join the NUHW ambulatory contract. Ninety-seven percent voted to approve the pact, which includes across-the-board raises of at least 3%, plus a $600+ ratification bonus. In May 2020, all workers will move up to their correct wage scale […]
October 31st, 2019
NUHW members picket Mission Neighborhood Health Center
Mission Neighborhood Health Center serves a vital role providing affordable health care to many Spanish-speaking immigrants in San Francisco. But the center is turning its back on its own caregivers, refusing to pay them a sustainable wage even as the center reports having more than $7 million in reserves and paying top executives more than […]
October 31st, 2019
LA LGBT Center professionals join NUHW
Three-dozen physicians, nurses, social workers, and other professionals at the Los Angeles LGBT Center voted unanimously this month to join NUHW. These professionals deliver primary care, sexual health care and preventive services, mental health care, and addiction recovery services to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Created in 1969, the LA LGBT […]
October 31st, 2019
Mental health clinicians strike; Kaiser locks them out of headquarters
With a Kaiser mental health clinicians preparing for a 5-day statewide strike beginning Nov. 11, caregivers at clinics in Simi Valley and Lomita held a separate strike in October to demand that Kaiser provide them with the same retirement benefits as nearly all other employees. “Every Kaiser employee at my clinic has a pension, except […]
October 21st, 2019
Kaiser therapists take to the streets to protest HMO’s failure to provide mental health services
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 […]