July 26th, 2016
National Union of Healthcare Workers members endorse Hillary Clinton for president
Three hundred and fifty elected rank-and-file leaders representing 12,000 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers voted 75 percent to endorse Hillary Clinton for president of the United States. Last October, NUHW leaders voted 72 percent to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination, while Sec. Clinton garnered 17 percent. With Sanders out of […]
July 19th, 2016
Dolores Huerta: Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital’s Board of Directors needs to serve the community
By Dolores Huerta The standoff between caregivers and executives at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital shows the alarming extent to which a profit-first corporate mentality has infected the public hospital and its administrators. Even though the hospital is supported by tax dollars, Salinas Valley Memorial is nevertheless doing all it can to maximize revenues at the […]
July 1st, 2016
Video: Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital — Where Is All the Money Going?
Every year Salinas Valley homeowners pay $3.5 million in property taxes to support Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. And every year, the hospital brings in more and more profit. Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital’s 2015 profit margin was nearly triple the average for California hospitals. Where is the money going? See the video below. Salinas Valley Memorial executives make […]
June 21st, 2016
St. Joseph Sonoma members ratify contracts
NUHW members at Sonoma County’s two St. Joseph Health System hospitals voted June 18 to ratify contracts. It’s the first contract for one hundred and sixty Petaluma Valley Hospital caregivers, who joined NUHW in December 2014, and the second for more than six hundred Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital workers, who joined in 2009. The caregivers […]
June 15th, 2016
KQED’s Forum discusses mental health parity, NUHW’s Kaiser struggle
KQED, San Francisco’s public radio station, devoted its June 10 Forum program to the issue of mental health parity. One of the featured guests was KQED reporter April Dembosky, who has extensively covered NUHW members’ long struggle to bring Kaiser Permanente’s mental health services into compliance with state and federal mental health parity laws. Dembosky […]