July 30th, 2018
Kaiser clinicians in Hawaii request to join NUHW
With bargaining underway with Kaiser, our struggle to improve mental health care is continuing to inspire behavioral health clinicians. Most recently, 33 mental health workers at Kaiser Hawaii issued a July 20 letter to Kaiser asking that they recognize their decision to join NUHW. This would be our first mental health bargaining unit outside California […]
July 30th, 2018
NUHW helping pass safe nurse staffing initiative in Massachusetts
As part of our alliance with the Massachusetts Nurses Association, NUHW members made a video to help pass an initiative to mandate safe staffing levels for nurses just like what we have in California. Hospital executives are using the same scare tactics to try to defeat the measure on the November ballot as they did […]
July 28th, 2018
NUHW Pulse – July 2018
Welcome to the July 2018 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW members have blown the whistle on a major employer’s failure to honor its charity care obligation, helped a campaign to pass safe nursing ratios in Massachusetts, exposed high infection rates at two Southern California hospitals, and taken the first steps toward […]
July 26th, 2018
NUHW blows whistle on Providence St. Joseph charity care shortage
NUHW is exposing Providence St. Joseph’s failure to honor its obligation to provide required charity care for low-income patients across California. In a letter to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, NUHW asked him to make the healthcare conglomerate comply with charity care obligations enshrined in a 2016 agreement that green-lighted the merger of Providence Health […]
July 26th, 2018
News of the Month — July
Two Marin nursing homes where NUHW members have sounded the alarm about understaffing are among 15 statewide that have been hit by class action lawsuits alleging that their owner systematically understaffed them to increase his profits, the Marin Independent Journal reports. The suits allege that the owner of the centers concealed the fact that the […]