August 28th, 2023
Workers get Penalty Pay extended at a major Providence hospital
This page is also available in: Español When Providence switched payroll systems last year, NUHW members at Providence hospitals across Northern California immediately started seeing systemic payroll errors that cost them thousands of dollars. Workers fought back last summer holding a press conference that was covered in Becker’s Hospital Review, the Santa Rosa […]
August 28th, 2023
NUHW expands presence at Keck-USC healthcare system
This page is also available in: Español The NUHW family within the Keck-USC healthcare system continues to grow after workers at the Pasadena Lab voted unanimously to join over 1,700 of their USC colleagues as members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The unit consists of lab assistants and lab techs. The […]
August 28th, 2023
Kaiser Model of Care Committees off to good start
One of our most important victories in last year’s 10-week Northern California Kaiser mental health strike was the establishment of five labor-management Model of Care committees. Our recent experience with Kaiser has been mixed when it comes to Model of Care committees, but what’s different about these committees is that as part of our contract […]
August 28th, 2023
Complaint seeks to downgrade Kaiser’s accreditation status in Hawai’i
This page is also available in: Español In a complaint filed earlier this month, NUHW requested that Kaiser Permanente’s accreditation status be downgraded to “provisional” in Hawai’i based on the HMO’s failure to meet the mental health staffing levels it agreed to in a Corrective Action Plan. “Kaiser continues to flout its corrective […]
August 28th, 2023
Member profile: Thomas Christian
Thomas Christian, a housekeeper at California Pacific Medical Canter, believes in speaking up when he sees something that isn’t right.