October 7th, 2015
Around the union: News and views from throughout NUHW
Red Day at Hazel Hawkins Members at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital in Hollister showed their colors Friday, October 2, wearing red and sporting NUHW buttons, lanyards, and stickers (photo above). It was an effort to show the hospital administration that members are united in the contract bargaining fight. Children’s Hospital of Oakland votes NUHW — […]
October 7th, 2015
Members form NUHW Retirees Committee
Northern California NUHW retirees invite our colleagues in Southern California to join us in building a union-wide Retirees Committee. The group will be focusing on supporting NUHW’s collective bargaining, informational picket lines, and strikes, as well as our political and legislative program. We seek to align ourselves with coalitions of union retirees in California. We […]
October 7th, 2015
Video: Eloise Reese-Burns, profile of an NUHW leader
Eloise Reese-Burns has been a leader in NUHW from the beginning in 2009, and well before that in SEIU–UHW and Local 250. She led her co-workers at three North American nursing homes out of SEIU following the 2009 trusteeship and has been leading the way ever since. Eloise is also a member of NUHW’s Executive […]
October 7th, 2015
Contract updates: VNA Santa Cruz contract settled, Kaiser breaks the law with Optical contract
After nearly two years of negotiations and a final marathon bargaining session that went well into the night, the social workers and occupational, physical, and speech therapists of Visiting Nurses Association of Santa Cruz reached a tentative agreement with Sutter Health for their first union contract. Members unanimously ratified the contract a week later. The […]
September 18th, 2015
Kaiser Permanente misleads press, public in attempt to blunt negative publicity stemming from class-action lawsuit
HMO’s press release makes misleading claims about staffing, new hiring in Kaiser’s mental health departments Damage-control effort is response to recent news regarding patient suicides, lawsuits, state regulators’ damning report on Kaiser’s violations of state law, and mental health clinicians’ initiative to hold Kaiser accountable to its patients EMERYVILLE — Kaiser Permanente, in an effort […]