August 30th, 2022
Mission Neighborhood Health Center workers win strong raises, additional holiday
Amid a severe staffing shortage, NUHW members at San Francisco’s Mission Neighborhood Health Center have ratified a three-year contract with a 12 percent salary increase, an additional floating holiday, and higher uniform reimbursements. “I think it was good timing for bargaining a new contract. We showed the employer they had to raise our pay and […]
August 30th, 2022
Fountain Valley workers win nearly $40,000 in unpaid bonuses and PTO
Twenty-one lab workers at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital won $22,500 in back pay when management failed to pay workers $150 to $300 in extra-shift bonuses they had been promised. After waiting a couple of pay periods, stewards and bargaining team members organized workers in the lab to document what they were owed, and presented that […]
August 30th, 2022
RAMS workers win big raises in mid-contract bargaining
“After years and years of being told that we matter, we’re finally beginning to feel it,” said Kimberly Banford, a licensed marriage and family therapist at Richmond Area Multi Services (RAMS). NUHW members at the San Francisco nonprofit, which provides mental health services for children in the public school system and many people in the […]
August 30th, 2022
Healthcare workers at Sonoma and Stanislaus jails ratify first union contract
“It’s a new horizon,” says LVN Jessica Barron, who has worked at the Stanislaus County jail for 11 years. Barron has patiently endured the bargaining delay tactics of her employer, private equity-owned firm Wellpath, since she and her co-workers voted to join NUHW in 2020. But workers stood strong through extended negotiations, and this month […]
August 30th, 2022
More than 2,000 Kaiser mental health clinicians are striking in Northern California and Hawai’i
In what is now the longest mental health strike in U.S. history, more than 2,000 NUHW-represented mental health therapists, psychologists, social workers and chemical dependency counselors are walking picket lines every day in Northern California and Hawai’i to make Kaiser Permanente fix a mental healthcare system so broken that patients wait months to start therapy. […]