January 30th, 2020
Mission Neighborhood Health Center workers win strong contract
NUHW members at Mission Neighborhood Health Center called off a scheduled three-day strike this month after reaching a tentative settlement on a three-year contract. The agreement includes 10.75 percent raises, as well as stronger protections against management harassment, better training requirements so workers are set up to succeed at every task, paid travel expenses and […]
January 30th, 2020
NUHW members win big in contract that averted strike
Five days before they were scheduled to strike, NUHW members at a San Francisco nursing home tentatively approved a three-year contract with major wage and benefit improvements. The contract includes 10 percent retroactive raises for most workers and a far more affordable health plan that workers can afford to use. The contract also includes an […]
January 29th, 2020
Realizing our 2020 vision
What action will you take this year to make our union stronger? NUHW stewards tackled that question at the 2019 Leadership Conference, outlining a robust vision for our next decade. They discussed what big-picture goals we should seek to accomplish over the next 10 years with respect to politics, organizing, and contract standards. Afterward, our […]
January 28th, 2020
Newsom’s push for mental health parity needs to start with Kaiser Permanente
This piece was originally published on Medium. When California lawmakers enacted the state’s Mental Health Parity Act in 1999, mental health patients were supposed to be assured of receiving the same coverage and level of care for mental illness as they would for any other medical condition. For 20 years, all we’ve gotten is lip service. But […]
January 13th, 2020
A historic moment for mental health parity
Kaiser is facing newfound pressure not only to achieve mental health parity, but to settle contracts that treat all of us with full dignity and respect. Our nearly 4,000 NUHW Kaiser mental health clinicians refused to return to bargaining until Kaiser agreed to settle contracts for all units, including Optical. When Kaiser agreed to enter […]