November 1st, 2011
We’re telling corporations that we’re fed up!
Profits for corporations are up, but paychecks for workers are down, and all over California people inspired by Occupy Wall Street are protesting this week.
Workers, students and community groups are taking action to express our outrage at how corporations have rigged our economy to benefit the wealthiest 1%…and left the rest of us behind.
Whether it’s at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, where CEO Sam Downing made off with a $4 million retirement “bonus,” or at Kaiser Permanente, where CEO George Halvorson makes $8 million a year—as healthcare workers, we’ve experienced corporate greed firsthand.
Here’s a few ways that you can join people this week taking action to tell CEOs that an economy that only benefits the 1% is not okay:
October 26th, 2011
Caregivers, hospital to meet in court
USC Daily Trojan: By CORINNE GASTON · Daily Trojan Posted October 23, 2011 (3 days ago) at 7:08 pm A hearing concerning the conduct of the USC University Hospital in relation to its caregivers will take place today. The National Union of Healthcare Workers filed labor charges of unfair conduct, which led the National Relations Labor Board — a […]
October 20th, 2011
Los Alamitos Housekeepers Ratify New Contract!
Congratulations to the latest NUHW members to ratify a contract! 42 previously non-union environmental services workers at Los Alamitos Medical Center in Orange County ratified their first union contract by a vote of 38-2. The three-year contract provides an average wage increase of 23% over three years with a 19% average increase frontloaded in the first year. The […]
October 19th, 2011
Take the quiz: Kaiser is rolling in money!
We all know the story. Kaiser claims they’re not making enough money, and can’t afford to keep our retirement and healthcare benefits intact. Or, Kaiser says they don’t have the resources to agree to our reasonable proposals to keep our hospitals and clinics safely staffed. As frontline workers at Kaiser, we don’t buy it for […]
October 14th, 2011
L.A. Times: Hospital workers on 24-hour strike at USC’s Keck Medical Center
Several hundred hospital workers began a 24-hour strike Wednesday outside Keck Medical Center of USC. X-ray technicians, certified nursing assistants and housekeeping staff are picketing over working conditions, particularly the ability of workers to have a say in how the hospital is staffed, said John Borsos, vice president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, […]