April 26th, 2017
Healthcare workers picket Fountain Valley Regional Hospital
More than 200 caregivers picketed outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital & Medical Center Tuesday demanding a contract that provides competitive wages and ends the hospital’s exploitation of part-time and on-call workers. NBC4 and OC Weekly covered the picket. Click here for a link to the OC Weekly story. Fountain Valley workers joined NUHW last year, frustrated that […]
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 […]