March 1st, 2019
Alert stewards help Fountain Valley workers win better wages
Last May, shop stewards at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital discovered that dozens “nursing assistants” were being required to submit a “certification” to prove that they were actually “certified nursing assistants”, which in their contract requires a higher rate of pay. We filed a grievance on behalf of the nursing assistants, and, after a 10-hour mediation […]
March 1st, 2019
NUHW Pulse – February 2019
Welcome to the February 2019 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW members won raises for Certified Nursing Assistants at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, convened a Town Hall on the state of health care in Humboldt County, fought back against contractually-prohibited subcontracting at Providence Tarzana Medical Center and confronted a top Kaiser Permanente […]
February 22nd, 2019
News of the Month — February 2018
A record number of US workers went on strike or stopped working in 2018 because of labor disputes with employers, according to new data released Tuesday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Vox reported that a total of 485,000 employees were involved in major work stoppages last year — the highest number since 1986, […]
February 13th, 2019
Video: Kaiser Permanente Delays Care with Tragic Consequences
Brennen Smith had to wait 29 days for his first Kaiser Permanente mental health appointment. It took him five minutes to buy a shotgun and kill himself four days before the appointment. Find out how his mother is trying to hold insurers accountable and help prevent more Kaiser suicides.
February 11th, 2019
Kaiser members revamp website, reach out to patients
On the heels of the largest mental health strike in U.S. history, we are revamping our KaiserDontDeny.org website to highlight the plight of Kaiser members who suffered when they or their loved ones could not get the mental health therapy they needed. Here is a portion of what Shirlee Zane, a Sonoma County Supervisor, wrote […]