August 29th, 2016
NUHW applauds Clinton’s comprehensive mental healthcare plan
The National Union of Healthcare Workers, the nation’s largest private-sector union representing mental health clinicians, applauds the plan announced today by Hillary Clinton to remove barriers to mental health and substance abuse treatment for tens of millions of Americans who need these services. “It’s about time a candidate for our nation’s highest office addressed one […]
August 22nd, 2016
Video: Is Your Loved One Safe in a Brius Nursing Home?
Brius Healthcare, California’s largest nursing home company, has an alarming track record. The secretive corporation has been investigated, cited, penalized, and even decertified by government agencies, criticized by consumer organizations, and sued by nursing home residents and their families over its chronic resident care failures, legal violations, and even resident deaths. Los Angeles’ Long-Term Care Ombudsman told the Sacramento Bee that conditions […]
August 18th, 2016
Election victories: More than 1000 workers join NUHW
More than one thousand previously unrepresented workers voted to join NUHW in the last several months. Kindred Hospital Bay Area In May, more than 100 registered nurses and professional and service workers at Kindred Hospital Bay Area, a transitional care hospital located in San Leandro (Alameda County), voted 90 percent to join NUHW, more than […]
August 9th, 2016
Press release: 300 Children’s Hospital Oakland workers vote to join National Union of Healthcare Workers
Business and administrative workers will join nearly 600 other NUHW-represented Children’s employees OAKLAND — More than three hundred office and administrative workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland voted 87 percent August 3 to join nearly six hundred of their coworkers as members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers. Children’s workers organized to […]
July 29th, 2016
Marin County caregivers picket, launch watchdog website Aug. 1 to protest conditions at Brius-owned nursing homes
Workers will hold twice-monthly pickets to call public attention to Brius’ profit-driven care and its consequences for residents of San Rafael Healthcare and Wellness Center, Novato Healthcare Center, and other Brius facilities throughout the state BriusWatch.org documents numerous government investigations, media coverage, lawsuits against California’s largest and most notorious nursing home company — owned by […]