July 17th, 2012
Luther Manor workers overwhelmingly ratify first Michigan NUHW contract
Workers win contract with no takeaways and major improvements After voting to leave SEIU in 2011, Luther Manor workers in Saginaw, Michigan overwhelmingly voted to ratify their first NUHW contract last week. Securing wages increases, weekend differentials, improved bereavement and medical leave, and raising standards for starting pay across the board, workers celebrated their achievement. […]
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 […]