March 6th, 2017
Executive Board declares NUHW a sanctuary union
After holding membership meetings throughout California and surveying our membership online, our union’s Executive Board adopted a resolution declaring NUHW a Sanctuary Union. Author Cal Winslow interviewed NUHW President Sal Rosselli about the resolution for this article, which was originally published in CounterPunch. Thirteen thousand members of the California-based National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) have […]
February 16th, 2017
Shlomo Rechnitz: “Misplaced Priorities at 40,000 feet”
The National Union of Healthcare Workers published a report Wednesday detailing how the CEO of California’s largest nursing home company, Brius Healthcare, spent an estimated $8 million on a luxury jet even as his company pays poverty-level wages to caregivers and racks up hundreds of patient-care violations. The four-page paper, “Misplaced Priorities at 40,000 Feet,” […]
February 15th, 2017
San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos: Why I joined the National Union of Healthcare Workers
This op-ed ran in the Feb. 15 edition of the San Francisco Examiner. During my eight years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, I worked every day to make The City a better place for its poorest and most vulnerable residents. But whatever fight was raging inside City Hall, I never lost sight of […]
February 7th, 2017
NUHW Pulse – February 2017: the latest news from NUHW
Welcome to the February 2017 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter! NUHW keeps growing with big win in Oakland 250 UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland professionals, more than half of whom are mental health clinicians — psychologists, therapists, and social workers — voted overwhelmingly to join NUHW. Read more Victories and updates from around the […]
February 2nd, 2017
February 2017 – Victories and updates from around the union
Read more below for the latest developments in the union, including grievance victories and settlements, bargaining updates, a new career ladders for surgical techs, and elections of new stewards and bargaining committee members. Radiology workers from Marin General Hospital voted 32-0 in favor of merging with NUHW in a December 19 election. Current officers will […]