November 3rd, 2011
NUHW members ratify a new constitution
Commissioner Dorothy Christiansen administers ballot countOn behalf of the Executive Board of NUHW, we are proud to report that NUHW members have voted in high turnout to ratify a new Constitution by a vote margin of 94%. The Constitution of the National Union of Healthcare Workers was drafted and recommended by the Executive Board on […]
November 2nd, 2011
700 SEIU employees’ pay cut by 12.5%
By Tiffany Revelle/The Ukiah Daily Journal Booing, hissing and a chant of “recall” met the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors’ unanimous vote to cut about 700 of its employees’ pay by 12.5 percent as roughly 200 members of its largest bargaining union left the meeting Tuesday. More than a year of fruitless labor negotiations between […]
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 […]