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 […]

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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 […]

October 7th, 2015

Los Angeles Times story: “His 83-year-old wife jumped to her death from a Kaiser clinic — why?”

The Los Angeles Times published a story in September about the tragic suicide of Barbara Ragan, the Santa Rosa woman who committed suicide by jumping, Kaiser card in hand, from a Kaiser parking garage after being told she’d have to wait eight weeks for a therapy appointment for severe depression. The LA Times story has […]