February 27th, 2023
Mental health therapists at Kaiser Permanente in Hawai’i ratify contract ending 172-day strike
NUHW-represented mental health clinicians in Hawai’i ratified a three-year contract on February 19 that ended the longest mental health strike in U.S. history. For 172 days, the approximately 50 psychologists, social workers, nurses and chemical dependency counselors withheld their labor to demand that Kaiser Permanente treat them fairly and provide care that meets the needs […]
February 21st, 2023
Kaiser Mental Health Therapists in Hawai’i Vote to Ratify Three-Year Contract after 172-day strike
The agreement provides raises and safeguards retirement benefits for therapists, but lacks additional measures therapists had sought to improve access to care HONOLULU — After walking picket lines for nearly six months in what became the longest strike by mental healthcare workers in U.S. history, therapists employed by Kaiser Permanente in Hawai’i — members of […]
February 21st, 2023
Newly unionized Sutter caregivers win fight for merit raises
The first year Kit Ho joined Sutter Care at Home, San Francisco as a registered nurse, she didn’t qualify for the annual merit pay increase because she was too new at the job. The second year she received a 1.5 percent merit raise followed by a 2.5 percent raise her third year. While the raises […]
February 13th, 2023
Unions can’t thrive without a well-funded National Labor Relations Board
Following a year of headline-making labor battles, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) received its first budget increase in nearly a decade. While the funding increase is welcome news, the allocated 9 percent increase falls considerably short of Biden’s initial request of 16 percent. We’ve seen a marked increase in unionization efforts throughout the country […]
February 10th, 2023
Providence St. Joseph Health hospice workers join NUHW
Workers at Providence St. Joseph Health Hospice-affiliated facilities in Sonoma County voted overwhelmingly on Feb. 9 to join NUHW, capping off an organizing drive that started after Providence laid off about 15 of their colleagues. For the 131 registered nurses, social workers, home health aides, and chaplains joining NUHW, Providence’s takeover of Memorial Hospice, Hospice […]