May 1st, 2019
NUHW members participate in dietitian conference
NUHW has a strong presence at the California Dietetic Association’s annual conference at the Riverside Convention Center from April 11 to 13. With approximately 500 registered dietitians in attendance, NUHW members Karen Garcia, Erin Lehman and Turusew Gedebu-Wilson had a booth where they raised awareness about our accomplishments and discussed the benefits of organizing for […]
April 30th, 2019
Clinicians take patient care fight to Kaiser in Southern California
NUHW-represented mental health clinicians turned up the pressure on Kaiser Permanente this month to settle a contract that will treat them and their patients fairly. On April 8, several dozen clinicians staged an informational picket outside Kaiser’s Los Angeles Medical Center that was covered by both English and Spanish language news outlets. Two weeks later, […]
April 30th, 2019
Dominican workers win first contract
After more than a year of negotiations, NUHW-represented professionals at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz agreed to a first contract that will address longstanding wage inequities and help protect jobs from being subcontracted. The contract will cover 120 workers at the Santa Cruz hospital, including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, pharmacists, registered dietitians, and […]
April 30th, 2019
Patients, clinicians and community leaders pressure Kaiser into meeting with CEO
For all its talk about launching a mental health revolution, Kaiser Permanente showed its true colors recently when it locked its own members out of its corporate offices in Oakland. On April 17, Kaiser patients, clinicians, and community leaders came together with the goal of helping the HMO truly become a national model for mental […]
April 30th, 2019
SF Supervisors approve mental health resolution as political pressure builds against Kaiser
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday, April 23, calling on Kaiser Permanente to achieve “full parity for mental health patients.” The resolution, introduced by Supervisor Hillary Ronen, also calls on Kaiser to sufficiently staff mental health clinics to reduce lengthy appointment wait times; limit wait times to no more than […]