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 […]
February 15th, 2018
News of the Week: California has too few behavioral health professionals
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 new report, funded by the California Health Care Foundation, forecasts a substantial shortage of qualified and diverse behavioral health professionals in California within 10 years, leaving minority patients and […]
February 7th, 2018
News of the Month: February 2018
Our Feb. 1 Sodexo worker strike outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital was covered by Southern California’s top publications, including the Los Angeles Times. The Orange County Register ran an op-ed supporting the cause of striking workers and OC Weekly covered the strike after publishing a separate story highlighting the plight of workers seeking their first union contracts. […]
February 7th, 2018
NUHW’s Kaiser fight discussed on labor podcast
NUHW President Sal Rosselli and Clem Papazian, a psychiatric social worker at Kaiser Permanente, appeared on a leading labor podcast this month to discuss our five-year fight to improve access to mental health care at the nation’s largest HMO. Host Jonathan Tasini lauded NUHW’s campaign as “social movement unionism at its best,” during the 25-minute […]