April 25th, 2024
Honoring our nurses
Today is the first day of National Nurses Week and we would like to take this opportunity to recognize the work nurses do to care and advocate for patients and to strengthen our union. Our union now has over 900 nurses (RNs, LVNs and NPs) working in many different settings including general acute care hospitals, […]
April 25th, 2024
Providence workers launch fight for single NorCal contract
This page is also available in: Español Nearly 2,000 NUHW members at five Providence hospitals in Northern California kicked off their campaign this month to win their first region-wide contract with a big show of unity during the first bargaining sessions. With Providence insisting on once again negotiating separate contracts for NUHW members […]
April 25th, 2024
News of the Month — April 2024
This page is also available in: Español Note: Some of these stories may require a subscription. The Los Angeles Times published a story regarding a 54-page complaint filed by NUHW about how Kaiser Permanente in Southern California continues to commit many of the same violations for which it was fined $50 million last […]
April 25th, 2024
Homecare workers picket in Santa Cruz
This page is also available in: Español NUHW-represented rehabilitation specialists who drive throughout Santa Cruz County treating patients in their homes picketed this month outside a Sutter Health office to demand a fair contract that pays them market-rate wages and doesn’t make it harder for them and their loved ones to access medical […]
April 25th, 2024
More USC workers vote to join NUHW
This page is also available in: Español Perseverance paid off for 19 workers at USC Engemann Student Health Center who voted this month to join more than 2,000 of their colleagues as NUHW members. The workers, who include licensed vocational nurses, medical assistants, and radiology technologists, were blocked by the university from holding […]