July 14th, 2014
July newsletter: Union News & Views for Children’s Hospital Oakland
Building the union at Children’s Hospital Now that we have ratified our contract and our new contract booklet is being distributed, it is time to focus on building the union at the hospital. The union works best when the members are engaged and participating in enforcing the contract and improving day-to-day working conditions. To that […]
July 14th, 2014
Caregivers picket Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center
NUHW members at Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco picketed the hospital on July 1 to draw the public’s attention to CPMC management’s proposal to renege on its previous commitments to the community by cutting twenty-eight skilled nursing beds. CPMC also proposes major cuts in employee benefits.
July 13th, 2014
Union seeks federal investigation of Kaiser Permanente
From the National Psychologist’s July–August 2014 edition: A union representing health care workers at Kaiser Permanente — California’s largest provider of health care, including mental health care — has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Kaiser’s treatment of mental health patients. The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) contends […]
July 12th, 2014
Union seeks federal investigation of Kaiser Permanente
The National Psychologist published this front-page story about Kaiser’s mental health care crisis in its July-August 2014 edition. A union representing health care workers at Kaiser Permanente — California’s largest provider of health care, including mental health care — has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Kaiser’s treatment of […]
July 10th, 2014
Kindred Bay Area: News and Views — July 2014
Committee will take on staffing issues — representatives needed! As everyone knows, we’ve got some staffing issues in San Leandro, especially CNAs. After an initial meeting with management in May, we tried repeatedly to get a follow-up session so that CNAs could come and tell their own stories about how the current staffing ratios are […]