October 16th, 2015
No More Suicides! Neoliberalism on the Kaiser Couch
By Cal Winslow (Click here to see the story on CounterPunch) It was unnerving, last winter, marching in downtown Oakland, to see placards, “No More Kaiser Suicides.” The march was a union march, hundreds of Kaiser Permanente workers, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) demanding a contract. The workers, on strike, were […]
October 13th, 2015
NUHW endorses Bernie Sanders for president of the United States
Thank you to the nearly two hundred elected rank-and-file leaders of NUHW for a successful 2015 Leadership Conference! (See the slideshow below.) Our theme this year was Raising Our Voices — taking our message and our issues to the people through the political process, through the media, and through union actions in our facilities and on […]
October 12th, 2015
National Union of Healthcare Workers endorses Bernie Sanders for president
PASADENA — Nearly 200 elected rank-and-file leaders representing 11,000 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers voted 72% to endorse Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary at the union’s annual Leadership Conference, convened October 10 in Pasadena, Calif. Senator Sanders’ message of reversing economic inequalities; his support for a single-payer […]
October 8th, 2015
NUHW Pulse — October 2015: The latest news from NUHW
Welcome to the October 2015 edition of NUHW Pulse, our union’s e-newsletter. Video: Portrait of an NUHW leader: Eloise Reese-Burns Eloise continues a family tradition of fighting for social justice. Read more Help save the NUHW–CNA affiliation agreement Find out what you can do to ensure that NUHW and CNA maintain our partnership and […]
October 7th, 2015
Help save the NUHW-CNA affiliation
Top officials at the California Nurses Association are trying to dissolve the affiliation agreement that NUHW members overwhelmingly voted for in January 2013. Ninety-six percent of us voted to affiliate with CNA in an agreement that would maintain independence for each union but allow us to provide mutual support to one another to advance our […]