November 4th, 2016
Town hall: Seton caregivers voice concerns over hedge fund’s takeover
NUHW co-sponsored an October 15 town hall meeting during which the community discussed the state of health care at Seton Medical Center (Daly City) and Seton Coastside (Moss Beach) since the charity hospitals were taken over last year by a New York hedge fund, BlueMountain Capital Management. With San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim and Daly […]
October 11th, 2016
An extraordinary year for NUHW
It’s been an extraordinary year for NUHW. Between October 2015 and October 2016, we settled twenty-three contracts — including nine first-time contracts — covering 8,600 members. We won 11 elections and added 1,500 new members to our union — a 17 percent increase. We won the long battle with Kaiser. And we show employers throughout California that we’re a […]
October 11th, 2016
NUHW, local pols hold town hall on the state of care at Seton Medical Center
Public invited to share concerns and ideas with San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, Assemblymember Phil Ting, and Daly City Vice Mayor David Canepa SAN FRANCISCO/DALY CITY — The Daly City and southwestern San Francisco communities will come together for a town hall meeting Saturday, October 15, to discuss the state of health care at […]
October 4th, 2016
550 healthcare workers file for elections to join NUHW
Five hundred and fifty healthcare workers at three California hospitals filed this week for elections to join NUHW. Four hundred workers at St. Joseph Health System’s Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for the opportunity to join their NUHW-represented coworkers at Sonoma County’s Santa Rosa Memorial and Petaluma […]
August 29th, 2016
USC Norris Cancer Hospital caregivers join NUHW
One hundred and twenty caregivers at the University of Southern California’s Norris Cancer Hospital voted by a 2-1 margin to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers in an election held Thursday, August 25. Norris caregivers’ priorities in forming a union are to improve staffing and the quality of care at the hospital, protect benefits […]