December 15th, 2017
Picket shines light on USC’s unequal treatment of healthcare clinic workers
More than 100 USC employees and their allies picketed outside university medical clinics Wednesday demanding a contract that ensures clinic workers receive the same pay and benefits as their counterparts at USC hospitals. Keck Medicine of USC provides its unionized hospital workers with fully paid health insurance, but has resisted extending the benefit to unionized […]
December 14th, 2017
NUHW members strike legal blow against attempted union busting
NUHW members at Queen of the Valley Medical Center won a major victory this month when a federal judge ordered the Napa hospital to resume good faith bargaining. At the behest of the National Labor Relations Board, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued an injunction requiring Queen of the Valley to bargain in […]
November 28th, 2017
Queen of the Valley caregiver calls on hospital to stop fighting its own workers
This opinion piece by NUHW member Ray Herrera originally ran in the Nov. 17 edition of the Napa County Register. Stronger when we work together Like all Queen of the Valley employees who live near the hospital, the second I smelled smoke wafting into my house last month, I knew I’d be working a double […]
November 28th, 2017
NUHW Pulse – November 2017
Welcome to the November 2017 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter! NUHW hosts first major debate of 2018 California governor’s race NUHW sponsored a forum October 22 at our annual Leadership Conference in Anaheim featuring the top four Democratic candidates on stage together for the first time — Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, State Treasurer John […]
November 17th, 2017
Video: How Brius nursing home tycoon Shlomo Rechnitz bilks seniors, taxpayers
Watch how billionaire nursing home tycoon Shlomo Rechnitz bilks seniors and taxpayers by shifting Medicare and Medi-Cal dollars from his Brius nursing homes to other companies he controls. Rechnitz operates more than 80 nursing homes in California. Brius’ patient care record prompted former California Attorney General Kamala Harris to call Rechnitz a “serial violator” of nursing home rules. LA’s […]