October 10th, 2019
Press release: Mental health clinicians launch statewide actions protesting Kaiser Permanente’s failure to provide timely mental health care
Round-the-clock presence to be established Sunday outside Kaiser’s Oakland headquarters and Monday outside Kaiser’s Los Angeles Medical Center, where clinicians will assemble 60-foot-long mental health monuments OAKLAND — Nearly 4,000 psychologists, social workers, therapists, and other Kaiser professionals are escalating their campaign to force Kaiser Permanente to fix its broken mental health system by establishing […]
October 1st, 2019
Alameda County Supervisors declare solidarity with Kaiser Permanente clinicians fighting for mental health parity
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday declaring its “strong support” for establishing “full parity for mental health patients and clinicians at Kaiser Permanente.” The resolution, which also expresses solidarity with Kaiser clinicians “in their fight to settle a fair contract,” was passed two weeks after Kaiser withdrew a proposed […]
September 26th, 2019
September 2019 PULSE
Welcome to the September 2019 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW members voted to endorse Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for president, held a one-day strike at Janus of Santa Cruz, held a one-day strike at Kaiser Permanente’s Pleasanton clinic, and picketed outside Kaiser executive offices in Oakland. NUHW stewards also […]
September 25th, 2019
News of the Month – September 2019
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 343 into law on September 5. Known as the Kaiser Permanente Financial Sunshine Law, the law requires Kaiser to provide more data about the revenue and profits of individual hospitals, whereas now it lumps those figures for all facilities into two broad categories: “Northern California” and “Southern California.” […]
September 25th, 2019
Mental health clinicians strike and rally in rejection of Kaiser’s scare tactics
Kaiser mental health clinicians in Northern California sent a strong message to management that they won’t be forced into accepting a contract that doesn’t go far enough to improve patient care and working conditions. On September 17 — Kaiser’s deadline for clinicians to either ratify a contract that 92 percent of them had voted to […]