January 30th, 2018
NUHW Pulse – January 2018
Welcome to the January 2018 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter! An extraordinary organizing year for NUHW Our membership surged to more than 14,000 in 2017 and we cemented NUHW as the leading union for mental health clinicians. Victories included organizing professionals at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and Dignity Health’s Dominican Hospital of Santa Cruz. Read more. […]
January 25th, 2018
News of the Week: Jan. 18-25
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past week: OC Weekly wrote about our upcoming strike at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital. The striking workers are employed by Sodexo, multi-billion dollar outsourcing firm that pays workers several of them collect bottles […]
January 22nd, 2018
Video: Sodexo–Tenet workers have to recycle cans to make ends meet
Full-time Sodexo workers at three Tenet Healthcare hospitals in Orange and Los Angeles counties have to recycle cans to make ends meet. Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center, Los Alamitos Medical Center, and Lakewood Regional Medical Center Lakewood Regional Medical Center subcontract workers to Sodexo, a multinational firm that pays barely above minimum wage. On February 1, Fountain Valley workers […]
January 17th, 2018
News of the Week: Trump Administration freezes mental health treatment database
Each week we share articles on subjects that are important to NUHW and its members. Here are several must-read stories over the past week: The Trump Administration has halted a program that has been the gold standard at evaluating substance abuse and mental health therapies, according to Scientific American. President Donald Trump plans to nominate […]
January 10th, 2018
NUHW members begin candidate interviews for political endorsements
NUHW has a well-deserved reputation for being an important player in state politics, and over the next few months our members will be interviewing candidates seeking our endorsement. Getting our allies elected to public office is critical to winning good contracts. Politicians hold sway over health care executives because so much of health care spending […]