December 28th, 2020
NUHW members save thousands of mental health appointments in San Bernardino
Thanks to the forceful intervention of their stewards, Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians have halted a dangerous proposal in San Bernardino County. Kaiser management in San Bernardino informed NUHW on Tuesday, December 15, that they intended to cancel all routine mental health appointments in San Bernardino starting Monday, December 21, to free up NUHW members […]
December 28th, 2020
Confronting a surge, NUHW members demand reforms at West Anaheim Medical Center
NUHW members at West Anaheim Medical Center are facing a surge of COVID-19 patients while dealing with severe understaffing and insufficient safety protocols. In November, six hospital employees tested positive for the coronavirus. While members meet with management to demand stronger COVID screening procedures for workers and more ventilators for patients, they also are seeking […]
December 28th, 2020
Santa Rosa Memorial workers win four-year contract
NUHW members at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital voted 98 percent this month to ratify a new contract, ending a campaign that culminated in July with the nation’s largest pandemic era strike. When the approximately 740 nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, medical technicians, housekeepers, administrative clerks, and food service workers, opted to hold a five-day strike, the […]
December 28th, 2020
Amid vaccinations, NUHW members sound the alarm about mounting COVID-19 crisis
California is in the midst of a mounting COVID-19 crisis at the same time that NUHW members and healthcare workers across the country are finally getting vaccinated. With ICU beds full throughout much of Southern California and the Central Valley, NUHW has joined with other unions, including United Teachers Los Angeles and UNITE-HERE Local 11, […]
December 7th, 2020
Will hospitals ignore California’s new COVID testing requirement?
California’s first-in-the-nation weekly COVID testing requirement for hospital workers starts this week Despite a staffing crisis and surging caseloads will hospitals ignore it? Amid a surge that threatens to overwhelm California’s chronically understaffed hospitals, state health officials are launching the nation’s most rigorous COVID-19 testing regimen for hospital workers. Beginning today, Dec. 7, hospitals are […]