May 29th, 2009
Workers Independent News: NUHW says it has strong support
The National Union Of Healthcare Workers says it has strong support as an election begins for 10,000 home health care workers in California. Doug Cunningham reports.
The Fresno County home health care workers are represented by SEIU. When SEIU took over the United Healthcare West local in a dispute over local union democratic control, many of the local’s leaders formed the National Union of Healthcare Workers. United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta says workers need and deserve to control their union.
May 28th, 2009
Dolores Huerta endorses NUHW in Fresno County homecare election
Click below for the full story, including TV and radio coverage of Wednesday’s rally.
May 28th, 2009
Healthcare workers volunteer to win Fresno election
Click play above for photos of healthcare workers from across California volunteering last weekend to help Fresno homecare workers take back their union.
May 28th, 2009
Stockton Record: Kaiser union battle draws pickets
STOCKTON – More than 100 Kaiser Permanente employees took to the hot sidewalks surrounding the health care provider’s massive West Lane complex Wednesday afternoon to protest what they say are Kaiser’s unfair attempts to stop them from organizing and joining a new union.
The red T-shirt-clad demonstrators – medical assistants, licensed vocational nurses, radiology technicians, member services employees and others – want to leave their existing union – SEIU-UHW, the Oakland-based local of the Service Employees International Union – and vote to join a new group, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, or NUHW.
May 27th, 2009
KPFA Evening News on Fresno election
The KPFA Evening News, Weekdays – May 27, 2009 at 6:00pm Click the green button to listen—the NUHW segment begins at 33:57. Source: KPFA