January 31st, 2023
January 2023 PULSE
In January, NUHW members in Hawai’i entered their six month on strike to improve mental health care at Kaiser Permanente. In California, NUHW members won big raises at a major Providence hospital, held a successful picket at UCSF Children’s Hospital Oakland, celebrated the anniversary of last year’s strike to make Kaiser recognize Martin Luther King, […]
January 30th, 2023
Workers fight back again against Providence (St. Joseph Health) payroll errors
For the second time in less than a year, NUHW members at Providence (formerly Providence St. Joseph Health) hospitals have successfully protected their rights amid the hospital chain’s chronic payroll issues. In January, Providence failed to deduct healthcare and other items from workers’ paychecks. The hospital’s response was to announce that it would double the […]
January 30th, 2023
Kaiser strike in Hawai’i now in sixth month
In one of the strongest showings of political support for striking mental health therapists in Hawai’i, U.S Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and six of her Senate Colleagues sent a letter to Kaiser CEO Greg Adams recently urging Kaiser to settle a contract with the NUHW members. “More than ever, health systems with the kind of […]
January 27th, 2023
News of the Month — January 2023
Some of these stories may require a subscription. The Sacramento Bee published an op-ed co-written by NUHW consultant Michael Lighty touting a calculator our union helped create that shows Californians how much they’d save under a single-payer Medicare for All healthcare system. An informational picket authorized by more than 1,200 NUHW members at UCSF Benioff […]
January 27th, 2023
Workers at Sutter Care at Home Sacramento Hospice vote to join NUHW
Registered nurses and healthcare workers who are part of Sutter Care at Home’s Sacramento Hospice held strong despite an intense anti-union campaign and voted to join NUHW on January 17. Sutter pleaded with workers to give them a year to improve conditions and insisted that forming a union would make things worse, but the 58 […]