August 31st, 2022
Kaiser mental health strike: Aug. 31
We had a good day on the picket lines in California and Hawaii with strong interest from journalists and community members during our first day on the picket line in Maui. Kaiser patients in Hawaii are starting to reach out to us about their challenges accessing care, and one patient told their story yesterday to KITV in […]
August 30th, 2022
Kaiser mental health strike: Aug. 30
We celebrated our second day of trans-Pacific picketing with strikers in Hawai’i sending a short solidarity message for their union siblings in Northern California, who responded with a message of their own. Our shared purpose in striking was underscored by a damning story in Capital & Main about Kaiser’s making a calculated decision to pay […]
August 30th, 2022
News of the Month — August 2022
Some of these stories may require a subscription. In These Times featured NUHW member Elizabeth White, a Kaiser Permanente therapist, in a story about the long-lasting effect of “moral injury” or “moral distress” on frontline healthcare workers, a debilitating combination of anxiety, fear, guilt, shame, anger and betrayal that results when workers are thrust into […]
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 […]