June 23rd, 2011
Illegal Lockout at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
SVMH management is illegally locking out about 100 workers who went on strike for 24 hours Tuesday. Management aims to intimidate NUHW members with their unlawful retaliation, but workers aren’t rolling over. Right now, locked out SVMH workers are picketing at the home of Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare District Director Harry Wardwell (picture below). Management’s […]
June 23rd, 2011
The Californian: SVMH board member calls for mediator to settle labor dispute
The Californian: As Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System officials moved to block striking hospital workers from returning to work on Wednesday, an SVMH board member made a public call to bring in an outside mediator to help bring a resolution to the escalating dispute. SVMH board member Patrick Egan said he has sat in on three […]
June 22nd, 2011
The Californian: Opinion – Nathan Olivas, Sam Downing and the Pyramids of Giza
Terrific opinion piece in The Californian: In his editorial in the June 7 edition of The Salinas Californian, Nathan Olivas made the argument that Sam Downing deserves the large salary, severance package and pension plan that were given to him (by Olivas and the rest of his cohorts on the hospital board) because Downing was […]