April 3rd, 2012
We won a contract with raises and no takeaways at USC
Brothers and Sisters: At 4:30 in the morning today, after a marathon round of bargaining, NUHW members at Keck Medical Center of USC reached a tentative agreement for an outstanding contract with no takeaways and raises of 9.75 to 33 percent over the term of the contract. Our agreement includes fully employer-paid health insurance, a ban on subcontracting and improvements […]
April 3rd, 2012
NUHW Tells Sutter Health: Build CPMC the Right Way
Last week, NUHW President Sal Rosselli and NUHW Executive Board member Helen York-Jones joined community leaders from all over San Francisco to tell the media that San Franciscans expect better than the lousy deal Sutter Health cut with the Mayor for the construction of CPMC’s new hospital campus on Cathedral Hill. The recent agreement lets […]
March 29th, 2012
San Franciscans for Healthcare, Housing, Jobs, and Justice Pronounce Sutter/CPMC’s Special Deal “Bad for San Francisco”
Broad-based coalition finds proposed development agreement protects Sutter/CPMC’s profits, but fails to meet the City’s needs for healthcare and jobs, or to address negative impacts on housing and traffic March 28, 2012 – Contact Leighton Woodhouse: (213) 948-3545 SAN FRANCISCO – This morning, on the steps of City Hall, dozens of healthcare and housing advocates, union members […]
March 28th, 2012
SF Chronicle: Activists call CPMC deal “unacceptable” and “glaringly deficient”
John Cote, City Insider
Well, that didn’t take long.
The same day Mayor Ed Lee publicly announced he had struck a deal with California Pacific Medical Center to build a massive 555-bed hospital on Van Ness Avenue, rebuild St. Luke’s hospital in the Mission and overhaul their medical facilities around the city, more than 70 people took to the steps of City Hall to denounce the controversial deal as a giveaway that, among other things, fails to create enough local jobs. […]
Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, representing about 750 CPMC employees, said “Sutter-CPMC has been the worst hospital employer in San Francisco” in terms of wages, safe staffing levels and its approach to unions. He faulted the new deal for not including worker protections.
Lee’s staff maintains that federal law prohibits including labor provisions in the development deal, but Paul Kumar of National Union of Healthcare Workers said the mayor has plenty of tools at his disposal to wrest concessions from CPMC, which posted almost $1 billion in profit from 2005 through 2010, or $830 million over that period when losses at St. Luke’s are factored in.
March 27th, 2012
Just say NO to SEIU takeaways at Kaiser
The evidence is clear. In the last three years, SEIU has given away more than $2 billion in contract concessions across the United States, $1.6 billion of that right here in California, and all of us at Kaiser Permanente are next. Before that happens, now is the time for workers at Kaiser to stand up […]