May 30th, 2019
NUHW members settle contracts for caregivers at Alameda County detention facilities and technicians at Marin General Hospital
Caregivers at Santa Rita Jail negotiated a four-year contract through April 30, 2023 with across-the-board 3.75 percent annual raises each year. The contract for about 150 nurses, medical assistants, occupational therapists, and other caregivers also provides for a new step on the wage scale for workers on their 30th anniversary, more paid-time-off for workers after […]
May 30th, 2019
News of the Month — May 2019
A proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would prohibit home health aides paid directly by Medicaid from having their union dues automatically deducted from their paychecks, though it doesn’t name the fees explicitly. Disgraced former Keck Medical School Dean Dr. Carmen Puliafito received nearly $1 million in severance, along with a […]
May 30th, 2019
USC Norris workers protest illegal wage theft
More than 200 University of Southern California Workers picketed Wednesday, May 15 to protest the university’s sudden elimination of nine paid holidays in violation of their union contract. The new policy, which went into effect in February, will cost 140 nursing assistants, housekeepers, medical technicians and other workers a combined $300,000 per year in lost […]
May 29th, 2019
Press Release: Berkeley City Council passes resolution calling on Kaiser to improve mental health care
The Berkeley City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling on Kaiser Permanente to achieve “full parity for mental health patients.” The resolution, introduced by Mayor Jesse Arreguin and Councilmembers Kate Harrison, Cheryl Davila and Rigel Robinson, urges Kaiser to sufficiently staff its mental health clinics to reduce wait times ranging from one-to-four months for […]
May 22nd, 2019
SF Supervisor urges Kaiser to fix its mental health services
San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen knows first-hand that Kaiser its failing too many of its mental health patients. In a May 22 op-ed published in the San Francisco Examiner, she revealed having to intervene on behalf of her friend’s 14-year-old child, who had been expressing thoughts of suicide and was told the first availability to see […]