July 11th, 2012
Holding Corporate Profiteers Accountable to Workers and Patients
As NUHW members, it’s our mission to make sure that healthcare corporations serve the public instead of just serving themselves. That’s exactly what we’re doing in San Francisco, where Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center is trying to push through a development deal to build a huge new mega-hospital with NO protections for NUHW members’ […]
July 11th, 2012
Must-read articles of the week
Here’s three must-read articles on NUHW, the IAM and SEIU’s failed leadership: Writer and labor activist Carl Finamore’s Labor Notes interview with leaders of NUHW and the Machinists on our unions’ new alliance. In These Times’ David Moberg on why SEIU is the wrong union to follow in the labor movement’s fight for economic justice. Blogger Doug Henwood […]
July 6th, 2012
Talking Union: Review of Labor’s Civil War in California
Check out Carl Finamore’s review of the reissue of Cal Winslow’s 2010 popular Labor’s Civil War in California in Talking Union. And please note this special offer: Author and long-time friend of NUHW Cal Winslow has a special offer on signed copies of his newly-revised book, “Labor’s Civil War in California: the NUHW Healthcare Workers’ […]
July 3rd, 2012
Sutter’s secret scheme exposed
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu called it “shocking.” Supervisor David Campos called it “unbelievable.” But for those of us who work at California Pacific Medical Center and know our employer best, it’s just business as usual for Sutter Health. As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner and the […]
July 2nd, 2012
San Francisco Chronicle: Leaked financial documents threaten CPMC deal
John Cote, SF Chronicle
Mayor Ed Lee’s deal with California Pacific Medical Center on a $2.5 billion overhaul of their medical facilities in the city, including building two new hospitals, took a new hit Monday after an anonymous whistleblower released internal financial documents that cast doubt on key pillars of the deal.
Lee has heralded the agreement, which includes building a 555-bed hospital at the intersection of Van Ness Avenue and Geary Boulevard, as a jobs creator that will ensure the city’s medical future.
The documents, though, show that the Sutter Health-affiliated medical group contemplated just days before the deal was announced in March the possibility of eliminating 379-full time positions at California Pacific Medical Center by 2018 to achieve $63 million in savings, an amount that grows to $70 million by 2022.
The documents, which include long-term financial projections for Sutter Health’s West Bay Region, also indicate that California Pacific Medical Center’s charity care commitment, which has clauses tying it to financial performance, could be substantially less than the called for in the deal.