March 25th, 2011
Woodland Workers Vote by a 10 to 1 Margin to Leave SEIU and Join NUHW!
Following on the heels of a near-unanimous vote on Wednesday by workers at the Cottonwood nursing home to leave SEIU and join NUHW, employees of the Woodland nursing facility near Sacramento voted today to do the same by a vote of 40 for NUHW to 4 for SEIU. As with their co-workers at Cottonwood, a […]
March 24th, 2011
Workers at Cottonwood Healthcare choose NUHW by vote of 54-1
Workers at Cottonwood Healthcare nursing home voted almost unanimously yesterday to leave SEIU and join NUHW. The National Labor Relations Board completed the vote count yesterday, with a final tally of 54 for NUHW to a single vote for SEIU. “We’re done with SEIU – finally,” said Eloise Reese-Burns, a Certified Nursing Assistant at Cottonwood […]
March 17th, 2011
A Message From Our Union Brothers and Sisters in Japan
‘Zenroren,’ the National Confederation of Trade Unions, is the second largest labor federation in Japan. Dear Sisters and Brothers around the world, On behalf of 1.2 million Japanese working people, Zenroren wishes to express our sincere appreciation for unions and individuals around the world for help dealing with the devastating “Tohoku Pacific Earthquake” which struck […]
March 16th, 2011
NUHW Executive Board Endorses May Day Immigrant Rights Rallies and Marches
Last Saturday, the NUHW Executive Board voted to adopt the following resolution: Whereas May 1st is the traditional holiday for working people internationally and, Whereas May 1st is the anniversary of the Haymarket Square rallies in Chicago, Illinois for the eight hour day campaign led by US unions, and Whereas in recent years, immigrant labor has […]
March 15th, 2011
NUHW Marches With Labor and Against War on March 19
NUHW has endorsed this Saturday’s march in San Francisco for sustainable economic recovery and an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. NUHW members will march alongside workers from dozens of other unions on the 8th anniversary of the start of the invasion of Iraq. The Labor Contingent meets to rally at 11am at the […]