April 26th, 2017
NUHW wins legal case against California’s largest nursing home operator
California’s largest nursing home operator must rehire and provide tens of thousands of dollars in back pay to five employees it illegally fired from its Novato, Calif. facility just two days before a 2015 vote to unionize. Judge Amita Baman Tracy ruled Friday that Novato Healthcare Center violated federal labor law when it “discriminatorily suspended […]
April 25th, 2017
Biorepository workers vote to join NUHW
Five Kaiser Permanente biorepository workers in Berkeley voted March 9 to join NUHW. “We joined NUHW because managment went through an almost complete overhaul. This transition led to a situation where over half of our department became targets for hard-to-prove discrimination, drastically increased workloads, and being targeted by new managers for termination,” said Reid Wearly, […]
April 25th, 2017
Lost-timers strengthen HCP and KPC chapters
Two stewards and vice presidents of their respective chapters, Turusew Gedebu-Wilson and Elizabeth White, used “lost time” to help strengthen the Healthcare Professionals (HCP) and the Psych-Social (KPC) chapters. Lost time is when the employer releases an employee for a short period of time to work on behalf of the union. Over three months, Turusew […]
April 25th, 2017
NUHW leaders gather to support Medicare For All
NUHW leaders from the Kaiser Integrated Behavioral Health Services and Optical chapters joined hundreds of their neighbors at a community meeting at the Maidu Community Center in Roseville on March 26 to discuss SB 562, the Healthy California Act. Another NUHW delegation rallied in Sacramento on April 26 in support of the bill. NUHW is among […]
April 24th, 2017
Napa’s Queen of the Valley Hospital fights NUHW election result in federal court
Providence St. Joseph-owned Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa, Calif., is wasting money to prevent its caregivers from unionizing rather than investing in patient care and lowering its infection rate — which has already cost the hospital $2 million in Medicare funding. It’s time for Queen administrators to respect our caregivers and fix our […]