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 […]
November 29th, 2018
Press release: Kaiser Permanente Mental Health Clinicians in California Announce 5-day Strike to begin Dec. 10
Four Thousand Caregivers to Protest over the Quality of Mental Health Care. Strike will Affect more than 100 Kaiser Clinics and Medical Facilities Emeryville – The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) filed notice with state authorities today that mental health clinicians represented by the union will hold a strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California Dec. […]
November 28th, 2018
NUHW Pulse – November 2018
Welcome to the November 2018 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW members have announced a 5-day strike of Kaiser Permanente and expanded their campaign to improve the HMO’s mental health care. NUHW members have also fought to save Seton Medical Center from bankruptcy, ratified a contract that makes USC hospitals among the […]