November 23rd, 2021
News of the Month — November 2021
Some of these stories may require a subscription. NUHW Kaiser Vallejo member Brandi Plumley was included in an NPR story about delays for services at Kaiser’s mental health care system and SB 221, which orders the insurer to provide patients with follow-up appointments within 10 business days. Plumley also did a live interview on KGO […]
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 […]
November 8th, 2021
Hawaii mental health therapists authorize strike; seek state investigation of Kaiser Permanente
HONOLULU — After three years of stalled contract negotiations, mental health clinicians at Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii have authorized a strike. The Nov. 2 strike authorization announcement came on the same day that NUHW filed a complaint with state regulators calling for an investigation into Kaiser’s apparent violations of state and federal mental health parity […]