January 5th, 2013
WSJ: Health-Care Unions Will Join Forces
smaller Larger By Kris Maher, the Wall Street Journal The nation’s largest nurses union said Thursday it would team up with a union representing other health-care workers, seeking to make the combined entity the dominant labor group in the fast-growing health-care sector. The groups’ decision to join forces intensifies their rivalry with the powerful Service […]
January 3rd, 2013
NUHW and Calif. Nurses Association Formally Affiliate to Protect Patients and Fight Contract Cuts
Two of the most powerful unions in the healthcare industry join forces to help workers halt erosion of contract standards everywhere OAKLAND — Four years ago, thousands of healthcare workers in California set out to reverse the steady erosion of union power in their industry by founding a principled and assertive new organization, the National […]
January 3rd, 2013
NUHW-CNA: An Affiliation Whose Time has Come
Just four years have passed since we founded NUHW, following SEIU’s disastrous takeover of our union. In that short time, we have grown into a powerful organization of 10,000 members, spanning every job classification in the hospital and nursing home sectors. We are now the fastest growing healthcare workers’ union in the country. Today, we […]
December 24th, 2012
Happy Holidays from NUHW
The holiday season is a time to express our joy and gratitude. All of us at NUHW want to express our deepest appreciation for all of you and the work you do, especially those who will spend time away from their families caring for patients and consumers in the coming days. 2012 was a landmark […]
December 20th, 2012
NUHW Kaiser Bargaining Update
My name is Ann Amato. I’m a Kaiser LCSW and a proud member of the bargaining team for NUHW’s Kaiser IBHS bargaining unit. I’d like to report important news from our bargaining table. Kaiser management is beginning to crack. We’ve all heard about how SEIU-UHW has agreed to allow Kaiser to lay off more than […]