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 […]
June 28th, 2018
NUHW Pulse – June 2018
Welcome to the June 2018 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW members have taken action in Santa Cruz, Sonoma, and Humboldt counties, picketed two Southern California hospitals, won a great contract in Oakland and spoke out against the government’s family separation policy. Check out the stories below, and be sure to follow […]
June 26th, 2018
News of the month: NUHW members fighting layoffs in Santa Rosa
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported on Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital announcing layoffs, which would include 35 NUHW members, even though the hospital raked in a $55 million last year. The hospital is offering to forgo laying off 28 nursing assistants, but only if all 150 nursing assistants agree to go from a 40 hour/week […]
June 26th, 2018
News of the Week: Judge orders migrant families reunited
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: A federal judge late Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to reunite all families separated at the border within 30 days. The children taken from their parents now live and wait […]