February 22nd, 2022
NUHW members at Kindred San Leandro fought hard for contract win
After several months of negotiations and a series of escalating actions that demonstrated their unity, nursing assistants, food service workers, housekeepers and unit secretaries at Kindred Hospital San Leandro overwhelmingly won a four-year contract that will boost wages and lower healthcare premiums. The Service Unit workers at the Bay Area hospital won the contract shortly […]
January 28th, 2022
January 2022 PULSE
In January, NUHW members won new contracts with big wage increases, picketed in protest of severe understaffing, held a one-day strike to demand Kaiser take action to support patients of color, advocated for the creation of a Medicare for All healthcare system, and welcomed more than 200 new members who voted to join our union. Check […]
January 25th, 2022
NUHW co-hosts Latinx Medicare for All town hall with Dolores Huerta
Healthy California Now and NUHW hosted a panel discussion on January 11 with civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and other Latinx leaders to discuss how barriers to health care have impacted Latinx and immigrant communities during the pandemic and how Medicare for All in California can eliminate health disparities. “We have to embrace Medicare for All […]
January 25th, 2022
Member profile: Laura Nakamura
Laura Nakamura, an NUHW steward and cardiac sonographer at Children’s Hospital Oakland, was elected to the Concord City Council in 2022.
January 25th, 2022
NUHW wins two more organizing elections
NUHW continued its rapid growth in January when workers at Sutter Care at Home of Concord and San Leandro, and USC Keck Medical Center’s Cardiothoracic, Cardio, and Bio-Med units voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The 163 Bay Area-based workers at Sutter Care at Home, who include nurses, nursing assistants and licensed vocational nurses, will join more […]