October 4th, 2016
550 healthcare workers file for elections to join NUHW
Five hundred and fifty healthcare workers at three California hospitals filed this week for elections to join NUHW. Four hundred workers at St. Joseph Health System’s Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for the opportunity to join their NUHW-represented coworkers at Sonoma County’s Santa Rosa Memorial and Petaluma […]
August 29th, 2016
USC Norris Cancer Hospital caregivers join NUHW
One hundred and twenty caregivers at the University of Southern California’s Norris Cancer Hospital voted by a 2-1 margin to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers in an election held Thursday, August 25. Norris caregivers’ priorities in forming a union are to improve staffing and the quality of care at the hospital, protect benefits […]
August 29th, 2016
NUHW applauds Clinton’s comprehensive mental healthcare plan
The National Union of Healthcare Workers, the nation’s largest private-sector union representing mental health clinicians, applauds the plan announced today by Hillary Clinton to remove barriers to mental health and substance abuse treatment for tens of millions of Americans who need these services. “It’s about time a candidate for our nation’s highest office addressed one […]
August 22nd, 2016
Video: Is Your Loved One Safe in a Brius Nursing Home?
Brius Healthcare, California’s largest nursing home company, has an alarming track record. The secretive corporation has been investigated, cited, penalized, and even decertified by government agencies, criticized by consumer organizations, and sued by nursing home residents and their families over its chronic resident care failures, legal violations, and even resident deaths. Los Angeles’ Long-Term Care Ombudsman told the Sacramento Bee that conditions […]
August 18th, 2016
Election victories: More than 1000 workers join NUHW
More than one thousand previously unrepresented workers voted to join NUHW in the last several months. Kindred Hospital Bay Area In May, more than 100 registered nurses and professional and service workers at Kindred Hospital Bay Area, a transitional care hospital located in San Leandro (Alameda County), voted 90 percent to join NUHW, more than […]