March 22nd, 2018
News of the Week: Administration lays out its plan to fight opioid crisis
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: Donald Trump was in New Hampshire Monday promising a tough-on-crime approach to combat the opioid epidemic, but experts question whether that and new funding from Congress will help turn the […]
March 14th, 2018
News of the Week: Anti-union laws imperil Democrats at the ballot box
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: The Napa County Register reported on our legal victory over Queen of the Valley Medical Center. An administrative law judge ruled that the hospital illegally withdrew recognition of the union […]
March 8th, 2018
Judge rules Napa hospital illegally retaliated against NUHW-represented caregivers
NUHW members scored another legal victory over Queen of the Valley Medical Center when a federal judge ordered the hospital to resume good-faith bargaining and reverse retaliatory actions taken against caregivers. In a 77-page ruling issued February 28, Judge Sharon Levinson Steckler found that Queen of the Valley Medical Center had committed a “litany” of […]
March 7th, 2018
NUHW members testify on understaffed nursing homes in Marin County
California’s largest nursing home company could be facing a campaign to wrest control of its two Marin County homes after workers and residents testified that both homes are chronically understaffed and under-resourced. “Given what we’ve heard, we feel they’re bad actors,” said Matt Myres, who chaired a Workers’ Rights Board hearing March 4 to look […]
March 7th, 2018
News of the Week: Trump sues California over sanctuary laws
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: Donald Trump’s Justice Department has filed a lawsuit that represents an aggressive new push by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to go after “sanctuary jurisdictions,” Buzzfeed reports. Sanctuary laws have earned […]