October 13th, 2015
NUHW endorses Bernie Sanders for president of the United States
Thank you to the nearly two hundred elected rank-and-file leaders of NUHW for a successful 2015 Leadership Conference! (See the slideshow below.) Our theme this year was Raising Our Voices — taking our message and our issues to the people through the political process, through the media, and through union actions in our facilities and on […]
October 12th, 2015
National Union of Healthcare Workers endorses Bernie Sanders for president
PASADENA — Nearly 200 elected rank-and-file leaders representing 11,000 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers voted 72% to endorse Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary at the union’s annual Leadership Conference, convened October 10 in Pasadena, Calif. Senator Sanders’ message of reversing economic inequalities; his support for a single-payer […]
October 7th, 2015
Help save the NUHW-CNA affiliation
Top officials at the California Nurses Association are trying to dissolve the affiliation agreement that NUHW members overwhelmingly voted for in January 2013. Ninety-six percent of us voted to affiliate with CNA in an agreement that would maintain independence for each union but allow us to provide mutual support to one another to advance our […]
October 7th, 2015
Los Angeles Times story: “His 83-year-old wife jumped to her death from a Kaiser clinic — why?”
The Los Angeles Times published a story in September about the tragic suicide of Barbara Ragan, the Santa Rosa woman who committed suicide by jumping, Kaiser card in hand, from a Kaiser parking garage after being told she’d have to wait eight weeks for a therapy appointment for severe depression. The LA Times story has […]
October 7th, 2015
Two upcoming union elections in Northern California
Novato Healthcare Center election next week Workers at Brius-owned Novato Healthcare Center, a Marin County nursing home, will have an opportunity to join NUHW next week. Novato workers began organizing for an election following a one-day strike by NUHW members at another Brius facility nearby, San Rafael Healthcare and Wellness Center. Brius has a very […]