July 9th, 2019
Press Release: Kaiser Permanente therapists to strike Wednesday over worsening mental health care for San Francisco children
SAN FRANCISCO — Kaiser mental health clinicians will go on strike for one day, Wednesday, July 10, to protest worsening access to mental health care for San Francisco children. The workers, who include psychologists, therapists and social workers, have been demanding increased staffing to halt the rapid decline in available services and reduce dangerously long […]
July 4th, 2019
Video: Kaiser Permanente can afford to hire more mental health therapists
Kaiser Permanente has the money to hire more mental health therapists. All it needs is the will.
June 28th, 2019
June 2019 Pulse
Welcome to the June 2019 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW-represented Kaiser mental health clinicians approved a one-day strike in San Francisco, EVS workers at Providence Tarzana voted to join our union, and RAMS workers settled their first contract after a long struggle. Check out all the stories below, and be sure […]
June 28th, 2019
Providence Tarzana EVS workers vote to join NUHW
EVS workers at Providence Tarzana Medical Center voted on June 27 to join NUHW. PTMC is owned by Providence Health and Services is an acute care hospital providing care to the medically underserved California’s San Fernando Valley. These 55 workers voted 2 to 1 in favor of joining more than 500 NUHW-represented workers at PTMC who […]
June 28th, 2019
Kaiser mental health clinicians to strike July 10 over chronic understaffing
Citing a growing child mental health crisis at their clinic, dozens of Kaiser therapists authorized a one-day strike if the HMO refuses to boost staffing in order to reduce intolerable appointment wait times and end overcrowding of group therapy sessions. The strike will be held from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, at […]