December 10th, 2014
San Francisco Examiner: Health care workers struggle with cost of living in SF
Thousands are struggling to keep up with San Francisco’s soaring cost of living. Many workers at Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center have been forced out of the city, and many more will soon follow if Sutter moves forward with plans to push more of the cost of employee health care onto workers. Click here […]
December 8th, 2014
Labor Notes: The logic of short hospital strikes
NUHW President Sal Rosselli and NUHW IBHS rank-and-file president Clement Papazian were interviewed for Labor Notes’ story on the logic of short strikes in the hospital industry. Click here to read the story.
December 8th, 2014
Our 2014 Leadership Conference was a success!
NUHW members gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn in Emeryville on October 11 for our second annual Leadership Conference. It was a chance to look back at the union’s accomplishments over the past year and to look ahead to new challenges in the coming year. Videos and slideshow below. With two hundred NUHW members in […]
December 4th, 2014
Workers at two St. Joseph hospitals vote to join NUHW
One hundred and twenty-four service and tech workers at St. Joseph’s Petaluma Valley Hospital voted by a 6-1 margin to join NUHW in a December 3 election. “I’m elated,” said PVH radiology tech Patricia Barnett. “We finally have a collective voice at the hospital. We’ll be able to sit at the table as an equal […]
December 2nd, 2014
Bay Area community groups support CPMC workers
Bay Area community groups demonstrated their support for California Pacific Medical Center workers November 19 by attending a bargaining session between the workers and their employer, Sutter Health. See the video below. Sutter is proposing huge cost increases for CPMC workers’ medical coverage that would make it difficult for many workers to continue to live […]