April 24th, 2017
NUHW members to picket Orange County’s largest for-profit hospital April 25
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nearly 600 healthcare workers to hold a one-day informational picket Tuesday outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital. FOUNTAIN VALLEY — Nearly one year after unionizing, caregivers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) will picket Orange County’s largest for-profit hospital Tuesday demanding a contract that provides competitive wages and ends the […]
April 21st, 2017
Psychiatric RNs win staffing grievance
Appropriate staffing and obtaining coverage for absences have been longstanding issues for NUHW Psychiatric nurses working in Kaiser’s San Diego service area. Citing budget constraints, Kaiser management there has routinely failed to backfill our RNs when they have to be away from work, leaving the remaining nurses unfairly overburdened on a regular basis. In response […]
April 21st, 2017
Clinicians pilot new communications platform
Stewards and members in IBHS, our union’s Northern California unit of Kaiser mental health clinicians, have been testing a new online communications platform called Mobilize. IBHS stewards have long wanted a new communications tool, beyond a Google group, to communicate more efficiently with each other and with their members, who are scattered across dozens of […]
April 19th, 2017
Children’s Hospital Oakland workers ratify contract
Service and technical workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a contract that will guarantee them raises of at least 14 percent through 2019. The contract, approved earlier this month, provides a retroactive 3 percent raise for 2016, another 3 percent raise this year, and 4 percent raises in 2018 […]
April 18th, 2017
NUHW members demand Trump’s tax returns
Dozens of National Union of Healthcare Workers members joined thousands of marchers April 15 to demand that Donald Trump release his tax returns. Without his returns, Americans are in the dark about Trump’s conflicts of interest, his foreign entanglements, and how the major changes to the tax code that he is seeking would further enrich […]