September 19th, 2018
News of the Week: Humboldt workers declare staffing emergency
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: Just two days after more than 100 of our members and nurses represented by CNA declared a staffing crisis at Providence St. Joseph Health’s Humboldt County hospitals, management laid off […]
September 12th, 2018
News of the Week — Obama praises Healthcare For All
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: Former President Barack Obama endorsed universal healthcare in a major speech, Common Dreams reports. Speaking at the University of Illinois in his first explicit rebuke of President Donald Trump and […]
August 31st, 2018
News of the Week — SEIU-UHW accused of shoving assemblyman
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past seven days: Assemblyman Richard Bloom accused SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan of shoving him at a Sacramento Restaurant, The Sacramento Bee reports. Bloom reported the incident to the Assembly Rules Committee. The San […]
August 30th, 2018
Elk Grove Unified School District counselors win first contract
Elk Grove Unified School District workers showed strong unity in winning their first contract. The two-year agreement addressed areas of great importance to members including having a reliably available work space to perform their work, that ensures student confidentiality, and a process by which resolution of an issue or situation can be had where legal […]
August 30th, 2018
SEIU-UHW President still an abusive bully
By Clement Papazian When my fellow Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians and I left SEIU-UHW in 2010, people asked why we cut ties with such a big, powerful union. After having seen SEIU spend the previous year sacking our locally elected leaders and putting outsiders like Dave Regan in charge, the answer was simple: A […]