August 9th, 2018
Workers strike West Anaheim Medical Center
Fed up with low wages, more than 100 nurses and medical technicians at West Anaheim Medical Center staged a one-day strike Aug. 9 to demand equal pay with colleagues at other hospitals owned by Prime Healthcare. West Anaheim caregivers joined NUHW last year to fight for better salaries. The pay gap is so severe that […]
August 9th, 2018
News of the Week — Voters resoundingly reject anti-union law
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: Workers won a landmark and lopsided victory Tuesday as Missourians voted by referendum to overturn the state’s new right-to-work law, HuffPost reported. Proposition A asked voters whether or not they […]
July 31st, 2018
NUHW members preparing candidate endorsements
August will be an important month for our efforts to elect pro-worker candidates to key elective offices this November. We urge members to participate in endorsement meetings slated for the coming weeks, during which everyone gets a say in which candidates receive NUHW’s blessing. The more allies we can help win elective office, the more […]
July 30th, 2018
Kaiser clinicians in Hawaii request to join NUHW
With bargaining underway with Kaiser, our struggle to improve mental health care is continuing to inspire behavioral health clinicians. Most recently, 33 mental health workers at Kaiser Hawaii issued a July 20 letter to Kaiser asking that they recognize their decision to join NUHW. This would be our first mental health bargaining unit outside California […]
July 30th, 2018
NUHW helping pass safe nurse staffing initiative in Massachusetts
As part of our alliance with the Massachusetts Nurses Association, NUHW members made a video to help pass an initiative to mandate safe staffing levels for nurses just like what we have in California. Hospital executives are using the same scare tactics to try to defeat the measure on the November ballot as they did […]