February 23rd, 2018
Healthcare workers condemn smear campaign against Hans Keirstead
Statement by Sal Rosselli, President National Union of Healthcare Workers on Smear Campaign against Dr. Hans Keirstead, candidate for Congress, Orange County (48th District) The National Union of Healthcare Workers proudly endorses Dr. Hans Keirstead for Congress and condemns the recent attacks on his campaign by fellow Democratic candidate Harley Rouda. With Russian interference […]
February 23rd, 2018
Sodexo workers picket outside Los Alamitos Medical Center
Housekeepers picketed Los Alamitos Medical Center Thursday demanding that the outsourcing conglomerate that employees them settle a contract that puts and end to poverty wages, unaffordable health insurance and short staffing. The strike targeting Sodexo, a multi-billion dollar French corporation, was the second this month by NUHW members outside a Tenet hospital. Workers want Tenet, […]
February 21st, 2018
News of the Week: NUHW staffing arbitration victory highlighted in SF Examiner
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: NUHW member Elizabeth Cronin wrote in the San Francisco Examiner about our landmark arbitration victory that will force California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco to stop understaffing nursing assistants. […]
February 20th, 2018
NUHW staffing arbitration victory highlighted in San Francisco Examiner
This opinion piece originally ran in the San Francisco Examiner: A victory for caregivers and patients As a patient care assistant at California Pacific Medical Center, my job includes feeding patients, bathing them and lifting them out of bed. Thanks to our work with the National Union of Healthcare Workers, my colleagues and I have […]
February 16th, 2018
NUHW members rally in support of Dreamers
About 30 NUHW members participated in a Feb. 6 rally outside their Oakland hospital supporting undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. With Congress again facing pressure to restore protections for young immigrants known as Dreamers, staffers and doctors at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland called for a bill that protects them from […]