September 29th, 2021
NUHW members helped stop the recall
NUHW members played a key role in helping Governor Gavin Newsom emerge from the recall election with a strong mandate to pursue progressive reforms. NUHW was the first union to come out against the recall and start raising money to defeat it by making the case to workers and progressive voters that Newsom had earned […]
September 29th, 2021
NUHW’s mental health parity bill awaits governor’s signature
NUHW-represented mental health clinicians and mental health advocates aren’t taking anything for granted when it comes to a bill they have worked hard to get to Governor Newsom’s desk. Just one week after the State Senate and Assembly passed SB 221 with overwhelming bipartisan majorities earlier this month, NUHW-members are spearheading an email campaign urging […]
August 31st, 2021
AUGUST 2021 PULSE
In August, NUHW members won new contracts, volunteered to defeat the recall, furthered their fight to improve access to mental health care, and ratcheted up the fight against a hospital company that is failing to pay its bills or fix equipment. Please read the stories below, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, too. […]
August 30th, 2021
News of the Month — August 2021
Note: Some of these stories may require a subscription. Republican Assemblymember Marie Waldron wrote a short op-ed in Patch supporting SB 221, our mental health parity legislation. Waldron is a co-sponsor of the bill. NUHW was quoted in this Bloomberg story about vaccine mandates for healthcare workers. NUHW member Kari Helgeson was quoted in the […]
August 30th, 2021
Seton workers continue fight to safeguard care
NUHW members at Seton Medical Center in Daly City are taking action to protect patients from the hospital’s new owner that has cut staffing, while refusing to pay its bills or fix broken medical equipment. AHMC, which purchased the hospital via bankruptcy court last year, has forced patients to delay heart procedures and wait up […]