February 10th, 2009
Sacramento Business Journal: New union protests home care cuts
Home care workers and their clients, other caregivers and union leaders rallied on the steps of the State Capitol Tuesday to protest proposed cuts to the program that funds services that keep more than 400,000 seniors and disabled Californians in their own homes.
February 10th, 2009
Free Speech Radio News: Former SEIU United Healthcare Workers West file at Labor Board
Length: 4:14 minutes (3.87 MB) The newly formed union made up of former members of the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West has filed petitions for elections in 62 hospitals and healthcare facilities with the National Labor Relations Board Offices in Oakland and San Francisco. The members are calling it the largest healthcare filing in California […]
February 10th, 2009
New member-led healthcare union leads fight against governor’s cuts
As Congress moves funds to save vital services, National Union of Healthcare Workers protests Schwarzenegger’s needless cuts that put the most vulnerable at risk
SACRAMENTO—Dozens of homecare workers, Kaiser workers and other caregivers protested at the governor’s offices in Fresno and Sacramento today to protect services for seniors and people with disabilities. They’re part of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), an independent union formed less than two weeks ago by the elected leaders of United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW) after they were undemocratically ousted by SEIU.
February 7th, 2009
San Francisco Bay Guardian: SEIU preaches unity while trying to divide and conquer CNA
Service Employees International Union is caught in the position of decrying efforts by breakaway leaders of the new National Union of Healthcare Workers to steal away SEIU members during a critical moment for the labor movement, while at the same time SEIU is meddling in the internal affairs of another union, California Nurses Association.
February 5th, 2009
More than 25,000 workers petition to join NUHW and oust SEIU from 101 California hospitals and nursing homes
“We want to stay united in NUHW with the leaders we elected. They helped us build our union and win the best healthcare contract standards in the country.”
—Janet Shepherd, respiratory therapist at CHW Northridge