June 28th, 2021
NUHW joins the call for student debt relief
NUHW is joining more than 100 organizations that have already signed a letter urging President Joe Biden to extend the pause on student loan payments and cancel federal student debt. President Biden previously extended the student loan payment pause through September, but advocacy organizations led by the Student Borrower Protection Center are calling for another […]
June 28th, 2021
News of the Month — June 2021
Note: Some of these stories may require a subscription. Tennessee-based LifePoint Health is set to acquire post-acute healthcare services company Kindred Healthcare and invest $1.5 billion over three years across the combined organization. The purchase is set to close in the fourth quarter of 2021 and will add 62 long-term acute care facilities, 25 inpatient […]
June 28th, 2021
Kindred therapists in Santa Cruz settle first contract
Occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech pathologists have approved their first union contract, one year after joining NUHW. These workers are employed by Kindred, but provide care at Dominican Hospital’s Outpatient Rehabilitation Center in Santa Cruz. NUHW also represents more than 100 workers employed by Dominican. The three-year contract includes 3 percent annual wage increases […]
June 17th, 2021
NUHW members picket Tenet hospitals; back calls for investigation into COVID relief aid
NUHW members held informational pickets outside three Southern California Tenet Healthcare hospitals demanding answers about why the nation’s second largest hospital chain is understaffing facilities and underpaying workers despite receiving billions in federal COVID-relief funds and spending $1.1 billion to buy 45 surgery centers. The pickets outside Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, Los Alamitos Medical Center […]
June 16th, 2021
NUHW members commemorate California’s re-opening at Medicare for All rally
As California officially reopened on June 15, NUHW members flocked to Sacramento for a rally calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to learn the lessons of COVID-19 and take the lead in creating a single-payer healthcare system that provides equal care for all Californians. More than 300 people were in attendance on the north steps of […]