April 15th, 2019
Press Release: Kaiser mental health patients to rally in Oakland demanding better care
Is Kaiser Permanente in denial over its mental health crisis? Mental health patients to gather outside Oakland headquarters after CEO Bernard Tyson ignored their meeting request WHAT: Gathering of patients who were unable to get timely mental health care from Kaiser, including one couple whose teenage daughter died by suicide. WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. […]
April 12th, 2019
Press release: Kaiser Sacramento refuses to provide mental health appointments
Patients in Sacramento area made to wait hours at understaffed walk-in clinics Emeryville – Kaiser Permanente is failing to provide adequate access to mental health care for Sacramento area patients, according to a complaint submitted to California’s Department of Managed Health Care. In the complaint, Kaiser’s mental health clinicians assert that patients seeking diagnostic assessments are […]
April 12th, 2019
NUHW recognized as “Union of the Year” in Humboldt and Del Norte counties
Capping off a year in which NUHW members in Humboldt County repeatedly demonstrated for safe staffing amid severe service reductions at their hospitals, the Humboldt Del Norte Central Labor Council named NUHW its Union of the Year. NUHW members at St. Joseph Eureka and Redwood Memorial hospitals staged multiple rallies in protest of layoffs that […]
April 10th, 2019
Press release: Statement by NUHW President Sal Rosselli on introduction of 2019 Medicare for All Act in U.S. Senate
Emeryville – On behalf of NUHW’s 15,000 members, we enthusiastically welcome today’s introduction of the Medicare for All Act of 2019 by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Medicare for All is the most sensible solution to our nation’s broken health care system. This legislation will put an end to increasing costs, limited provider choices, soaring drug prices and […]
March 29th, 2019
March 2019 Pulse
Welcome to the March 2019 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW members won four new organizing elections, secured raises for imaging technologists at Marin General Hospital, received the backing of dozens of elected officials for our campaign to improve Kaiser mental health services, released a video documenting one family’s struggle to get […]