March 17th, 2015
NUHW Optical unit holds vote on Kaiser’s Final Offer
NUHW is conducting a vote March 24–30 to endorse the Optical Bargaining Committee’s decision to accept Kaiser’s Final Offer made during contract bargaining. Click here for voting dates, times, and locations.
March 2nd, 2015
Regulators slam Kaiser (again) for failures in mental health services
The California Department of Managed Health Care finally released its long-awaited follow-up survey of Kaiser Permanente’s mental health services, and once again it ain’t a pretty picture. The DMHC found that Kaiser has failed to correct two of the four problems the agency cited and fined Kaiser $4 million for in 2013. Kaiser not only […]
March 2nd, 2015
Press coverage: DMHC follow-up survey slams Kaiser mental health services
On February 24, 2015, the California Department of Managed Health Care released its follow-up survey of Kasier mental health services, which shows that Kaiser continues to violate state laws governing timely access to care. Click here to read the report. Click here to read the DMHC’s press release. Click here for press coverage of NUHW’s […]
February 10th, 2015
Corizon, Alameda County pay $8.3 million to settle jail death lawsuit
Alameda County and Corizon Health, Inc., the for-profit corporation that contracts with the county to provide heathcare services for inmates at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and the Glenn Dyer Detention Center in Oakland, agreed Monday to the largest civil rights wrongful death settlement in California history. Corizon and the county settled a lawsuit for […]
February 5th, 2015
Video: NUHW’s historic Kaiser strike, January 2015
Our Kaiser strike was a great success! We held sixty-five picket lines in thirty-five cities throughout California between January 12 and January 16, 2015, bringing much-needed attention to Kaiser’s profit-first mentality and to the systemic understaffing of Kaiser’s psychiatry department, which has led to hardships and even tragedies for Kaiser patients and their families. We […]