March 29th, 2019
NUHW wins four organizing elections
In four separate elections, more than 120 healthcare workers voted to join NUHW. The elections expand our growing presence at Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California and Marin General Hospital, where our members have already won strong contracts for our members. At USC, our newest members include technicians at a sleep disorder center, […]
March 28th, 2019
News of the month — March 2019
Seong Brown, who spoke at our mental health forum and attended our Kaiser strike rally in San Francisco, talked about her daughter’s struggle to get care from Kaiser and subsequent suicide, in a story by CalMatters. The story has also appeared in the SF Chronicle. Rachel Smith, who’s son died by suicide four days before […]
March 28th, 2019
NUHW leader shares Kaiser strike insights during International Working Women’s Day panel
Following a year marked by worker strikes in female-dominated fields including mental health care, NUHW Vice President Elizabeth White reflected on December’s Kaiser strike as part of a panel discussion for International Working Women’s Day. White, a Kaiser psychiatric social worker, joined union leaders from UNITE HERE and UTLA, to talk about their recent strikes […]
March 15th, 2019
Kaiser still in denial over patient suicides
by Sal Rosselli NUHW President Seong and David Brown have lived every parents’ nightmare. One summer, their brilliant, beautiful teenage daughter, Elizabeth, returned home from college and confided that she was having panic attacks and cutting herself. Their nightmare only got worse when they tried to get Elizabeth mental health therapy from their HMO, Kaiser […]
March 15th, 2019
Video: Elizabeth’s story: The human cost of Kaiser’s mental health failures
After struggling for more than a year to get mental healthcare from Kaiser Permanente, Elizabeth Morgan Brown took her life at the age of 19.