March 23rd, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines Save Lives
Dr. Desmond Carlson, an Emergency Medicine doctor in Richmond, California, for 30 years, tells why the Covid-19 vaccines now available in the United States are safe and highly effective in preventing the spread of disease. Because of their increased exposure to the virus, it is especially important that people working in a health care setting […]
March 19th, 2021
NUHW condemns racism against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders amid rise in hate crimes
NUHW President Sal Rosselli and Secretary-Treasurer issued the following statement following the March 16 shootings that claimed the lives of eight people, including six Asian women in Atlanta. As we mourn the victims of the March 16 shootings in the Atlanta area, the National Union of Healthcare Workers is committed to reinforcing our efforts as […]
March 18th, 2021
Press release: Dolores Huerta endorses healthcare worker-led anti-recall campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2021 Contact: Matthew Artz, martz@nuhw.org, 510-435-8035 EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Labor icon Dolores Huerta is joining the healthcare worker-led campaign against the attempted right-wing Republican recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom. “We can’t forget how the last recall brought us a governor who used ballot measures to attack the rights of workers […]
March 16th, 2021
Providence slashes hospital jobs and services even after announcing annual profit
UPDATE: Workers at Providence’s Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa will hold an informational picket on Wednesday, April 28 to protest 11 proposed layoffs. When Providence, the nation’s fourth-largest Catholic healthcare chain with 51 hospitals spanning seven states, appeared likely to endure COVID-related losses last year, taxpayers chipped in with $957 million in […]
March 10th, 2021
Seton workers picket against layoffs, chronic understaffing
One year after they rallied to save their hospitals from imminent closure as the pandemic was taking hold, caregivers at Seton Medical Center and Seton Coastside picketed on March 10, demanding that the hospital’s new owner rescind layoff notices and address severe understaffing on several units. “There are nights when we only have two nursing […]