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 […]
March 10th, 2021
Press release: California’s largest progressive organization joins NUHW in campaign to fight right-wing recall
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 10, 2021 Contact: Matthew Artz, martz@nuhw.org, 510-435-8035 Angela Chavez, press@couragecampaign.org EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Courage California is joining with the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) to organize voters against the Republican-led recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Courage California is a multi-issue progressive organization that organizes communities in-state and nationwide to fight […]
March 8th, 2021
President Biden praises unions
On February 28, as workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama continued voting whether to form a union, President Biden released a 2 ½-minute video extolling the importance of unions and giving a full-throated endorsement of a worker’s right to collectively bargain. Biden’s statement not only shows that he is on the side of […]
March 5th, 2021
2021 could be a big year for labor unions
In cities across the U.S., and between the walls of some of the world’s largest enterprises, there is a swelling of union organizing activity that has been propelled by the pandemic and the recession. Read more at CNN.