February 10th, 2015
Corizon, Alameda County pay $8.3 million to settle jail death lawsuit
Alameda County and Corizon Health, Inc., the for-profit corporation that contracts with the county to provide heathcare services for inmates at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and the Glenn Dyer Detention Center in Oakland, agreed Monday to the largest civil rights wrongful death settlement in California history. Corizon and the county settled a lawsuit for […]
February 5th, 2015
Video: NUHW’s historic Kaiser strike, January 2015
Our Kaiser strike was a great success! We held sixty-five picket lines in thirty-five cities throughout California between January 12 and January 16, 2015, bringing much-needed attention to Kaiser’s profit-first mentality and to the systemic understaffing of Kaiser’s psychiatry department, which has led to hardships and even tragedies for Kaiser patients and their families. We […]
February 4th, 2015
Video: Corizon’s get-rich-quick scheme is killing people
Click here to join the ACLU, Beyond Bars, and The Nation in a fight against prison profiteers like Corizon.
February 2nd, 2015
California labor’s civil wars continue
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: California Labor’s Civil Wars Continue By CAL WINSLOW CounterPunch, Jan. 30, 2015 http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/30/california-labors-civil-wars-continue/ In the first big strike of the year, 3,500 California health care workers took to the picket line at Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest health care provider (HMO). Therapists, psychologists, optical workers, dieticians, social workers, psychiatric […]
January 26th, 2015
Workers at Fortuna’s Redwood Memorial Hospital vote to join NUHW!
Service and tech workers at St. Joseph Health System’s Redwood Memorial Hospital in Fortuna voted today by a 3-1 margin to join NUHW! The vote count was held at 1 p.m. today at the National Labor Relations Board’s San Francisco office. This is the third Northern California St. Joseph hospital in the past year to […]