November 23rd, 2021
On Día de Muertos, remembering those lost to COVID-19
Día de Muertos is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican tradition dating back more than 3,000 years in which people honor their deceased friends and family members by building ofrendas (Altars) that are decorated with candles, cempasúchil (Aztec marigolds), sugar skulls, papél picado (tissue paper), pan de muerto (day of the dead bread), the deceased’s favorite foods, and […]
November 23rd, 2021
Member profile: Ana Ortiz
Ana Ortiz, an expeditor at Santa Rosa Memorial, discovered Aztec dance as a way to deal with the stress of cancer treatment. Now recovered, she now finds that dance helps her manage the pressures of work.
November 23rd, 2021
NUHW members picket West Anaheim Medical Center over staffing crisis
More than 100 nurses, respiratory therapists and medical technicians picketed West Anaheim Medical Center on November 22 demanding that the hospital address a worsening staffing crisis that is putting patients at risk. “It’s gotten to the point where people are getting sick staff-wise,” Jeanne Waite, a nurse in the hospital’s behavioral health unit, told the […]
November 23rd, 2021
Salinas Valley Memorial workers ratify contract with strong raises and better educational benefits
After four months of intense negotiations and actions, 887 NUHW members at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital won a four-year contract with substantial wage increases and other major concessions. Workers voted 97 percent in favor of the new agreement that includes a 16% wage increase and a $500 bonus for all members and improved education benefits […]
November 19th, 2021
NUHW holds solidarity strike, marches on Kaiser’s Oakland headquarters
In a forceful demonstration of solidarity with striking Kaiser Permanente engineers and outrage over Kaiser’s chronic underfunding of behavioral health care, NUHW social workers, therapists, and psychologists fanned out to Kaiser hospitals across Northern California for a one-day strike. The picket lines formed before dawn and culminated with hundreds of red-clad NUHW members, along with […]