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. […]
August 29th, 2022
Kaiser mental health strike: Aug. 29
Kaiser executives were desperate for people to come back to work today. We even were told that Kaiser is so desperate that they offered free massages and catered food in Sacramento for anyone who crossed the picket line. However, our numbers are holding strong — more workers turned out for today’s California picket lines than […]
August 26th, 2022
Kaiser mental health strike: Aug. 26
Our strike lines today remained strong and spirited. KTVU covered us in the Bay Area, several patients stopped by to offer their support, and we helped several patients file complaints with the state. This is the longest mental health care strike in history. We know it’s not easy. But, at the end of the day, […]