November 30th, 2018
Seton workers on front lines of saving hospital
NUHW members are actively working to save Seton Medical Center and Seton Coastside from potential closure. Amiame Fanaika, a Seton shop steward, attended meetings of a coalition formed to find a buyer for the hospital as well as forums with the hospital’s chief executive. “Nothing is guaranteed, but we’re starting to make some progress, and […]
November 30th, 2018
NUHW helps flip the house and elect Gavin Newsom
Shortly following the November election, it looked we had a strong showing in key races. But as more votes have trickled in, the results are truly historic. Although the tallies aren’t final, it looks as if we helped flip seven congressional which had been held by politicians who had voted to repeal the Affordable Care […]
November 30th, 2018
USC workers win contracts, bring Sodexo colleagues in-house
Nearly 1,100 University of Southern California employees at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract. The agreement not only makes USC one of the region’s highest-paying hospital systems, but it guarantees that more than 80 cafeteria workers whose jobs had been outsourced to Sodexo, a French conglomerate that […]
November 30th, 2018
Solidarity helps save benefits for 21 Children’s Hospital workers
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland already didn’t have enough EVS workers on the job to keep the hospital clean when management announced a rebid that would only make the problem worse. Under the proposed rebid, not only would there be even fewer EVS workers working their shifts, but the reductions would have resulted in 21 […]
November 30th, 2018
Kaiser Statewide Strike Dates and Locations
December 10-14, Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians represented by NUHW will hold a strike at Kaiser facilities across California. Four-thousand psychologists, therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and addiction medicine specialists — along with other medical professionals — will stage pickets outside dozens of facilities from San Diego to Sacramento. Kaiser has a long history of […]