April 29th, 2016
Bay Area NUHW members turn out for Labor for Bernie organizing rally
NUHW chaired a Bay Area Labor for Bernie organizing rally April 22 in San Francisco. One hundred and fifty leaders and activists from ten Bay Area unions made plans for canvassing for Bernie Sanders at their workplaces in an effort to get out the vote for the Democratic presidential candidate in the June 7 primary.
April 28th, 2016
NUHW members take part in biennial Labor Notes conference
NUHW members participated in the biennial Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, Illinois April 1-3. Porfirio Quintano, a steward at Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center (Sutter–CPMC) in San Francisco and a member of NUHW’s Executive Board, was asked by conference organizers to co-chair, along with a veteran activist of the New York State Nurses Association, a national […]
April 24th, 2016
Report: How short staffing undermines patient care standards at Sonoma County’s St. Joseph hospitals
Public Health Dept. records show deficiencies increased as St. Joseph cut staffing levels Company posted unprecedented profits while putting patients at risk, cutting benefits for staff A report released April 25, 2016, by caregivers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and Petaluma Valley Hospital documents the harmful impacts of short-staffing at the two St. Joseph Health System […]
April 18th, 2016
NUHW’s Kaiser mental health clinicians to be honored with United in Courage Award
NUHW’s Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians — psychologists, psychiatric social workers, therapists, and psychiatric nurses working at hundreds of Kaiser clinics throughout California — will be honored with Courage Campaign’s United in Courage Award for the tremendous courage they’ve demonstrated over the past five years, particularly but especially in 2015. The awards dinner will be […]
April 18th, 2016
NUHW stewards advocate for Medicare for All, single-payer health care
NUHW steward councils throughout the state are holding discussions about the kind of change we want for the broken U.S. health care system. One of the reasons NUHW has endorsed Bernie Sanders for president is his long-time advocacy of a publicly funded Medicare for All, single-payer healthcare system that would eliminate the profit-driven insurance companies […]