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, […]
August 25th, 2022
Kaiser mental health strike: Aug. 25
One day after Governor Gavin Newsom’s Department of Managed Health Care initiated an enforcement action against Kaiser for illegally delaying and denying care during our strike, we won another important victory: The state legislature today passed Senate Bill 855, which would increase fines by health care companies like Kaiser tenfold — from $2,500 to $25,000 […]