August 26th, 2020
News of the Month — August 2020
The website CounterPunch published an article about NUHW’s advocacy for COVID-19 safety protocols. While most hospitals still refuse to test workers for COVID-19, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) will become the first U.S. airport to provide free on-site rapid coronavirus testing for its employees. While Providence St. Joseph tries to quickly purchase two public hospitals […]
August 24th, 2020
Their heroes and ours: California’s healthcare crisis
by Cal Winslow This essay was published in Counterpunch and BeyondChron Patients and visitors to Sutter Health’s shiny new hospital in Santa Rosa, Calif., are greeted with large banners, “Heroes Work Here.” This no doubt is true. At Kaiser Permanente’s hospitals we learn much the same, the giant HMO has awarded itself Five Stars for […]
August 19th, 2020
Op-ed: Professional athletes are getting coronavirus tests. Why aren’t healthcare workers?
This op-ed by NUHW President Sal Rosselli ran in the Sacramento Bee on Sunday, August 16, 2020. BY SAL ROSSELLI For the past five months, healthcare union leaders like me have been sounding the alarm about the appalling lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients. But there’s one thing that’s […]
August 3rd, 2020
JULY 2020 PULSE
In July, NUHW members held the nation’s largest hospital strike since the pandemic’s onset, advocated for mental health care reforms, picketed against lax infection controls, and welcomed new members at Sonoma County Jail. NUHW also joined hundreds of organizations in demanding that Facebook take action against hate speech on its platform. Check out the stories below, and […]