April 25th, 2024
Providence workers launch fight for single NorCal contract
This page is also available in: Español Nearly 2,000 NUHW members at five Providence hospitals in Northern California kicked off their campaign this month to win their first region-wide contract with a big show of unity during the first bargaining sessions. With Providence insisting on once again negotiating separate contracts for NUHW members […]
April 25th, 2024
Homecare workers picket in Santa Cruz
This page is also available in: Español NUHW-represented rehabilitation specialists who drive throughout Santa Cruz County treating patients in their homes picketed this month outside a Sutter Health office to demand a fair contract that pays them market-rate wages and doesn’t make it harder for them and their loved ones to access medical […]
April 25th, 2024
More USC workers vote to join NUHW
This page is also available in: Español Perseverance paid off for 19 workers at USC Engemann Student Health Center who voted this month to join more than 2,000 of their colleagues as NUHW members. The workers, who include licensed vocational nurses, medical assistants, and radiology technologists, were blocked by the university from holding […]
April 25th, 2024
Sutter workers strike again in Sacramento with Dolores Huerta in attendance
This page is also available in: Español Kenisha Campbell does just about everything one can do at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry, a 73-bed psychiatric hospital in her hometown of Sacramento. As a unit secretary and patient care support specialist, Campbell takes vital signs, does urinalysis, helps patients bathe and brush their teeth […]
April 25th, 2024
Marin workers hold first strike since 2019
This page is also available in: Español While MarinHealth Medical Center has netted strong operating profits in recent years, its 107 medical technicians, who operate critical equipment like X-ray and MRI machines and prepare medications, have been falling behind, struggling to make ends meet in one of the nation’s most expensive counties. After […]