June 29th, 2018
Caregivers rally to stop layoffs at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
More than 200 people picketed outside Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Friday calling on the hospital to rescind layoffs to dozens of caregivers who worked around the clock in the aftermath of last year’s fires. Chanting “What do we want? No layoffs!,” workers and supporters questioned why the hospital would be laying off frontline caregivers, including […]
June 29th, 2018
NUHW partakes in Mental Health Matters Day
NUHW once again co-sponsored Mental Health Matters Day in Sacramento. The one-day event, organized by Mental Health America of California, brings together advocates for improving mental health care and ending stigma. This year’s keynote speaker was Darryl “DMC” McDaniels from the seminal hip hop group Run-DMC. Several of our Kaiser mental health clinicians ran our […]
June 29th, 2018
Children’s hospital workers unanimously ratify contract that expands pensions
Professional workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland displayed tremendous unity in winning a great first contract that includes sizable raises and full defined-benefit pensions for everyone in the 250-member unit. When these workers organized last year, about half of them did not have pensions because the hospital had discontinued the pension plan for everyone […]
June 29th, 2018
NUHW members take case for raises to Santa Cruz supervisors
NUHW-represented treatment workers at Santa Cruz County’s largest drug rehabilitation facility told county lawmakers that Santa Cruz’s addiction crisis won’t get better until the county pays them a living wage. Santa Cruz has an opioid overdose death rate double the statewide average. Yet, Janus of Santa Cruz, the county’s primary addiction treatment provider, pays its […]
June 29th, 2018
NUHW calls for migrant families to be immediately reunited
NUHW’s Executive Board unanimously passed a resolution Thursday, June 28 condemning President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policies and calling on his administration to immediately return migrant children to their parents. The resolution followed a statement signed by seven NUHW Executive vice presidents, who are also mental health clinicians, warning that the administration’s “zero-tolerance” approach risked causing […]