June 26th, 2020
“Elizabeth’s Story” video wins 3 awards for online advocacy
When 4,000 Kaiser mental health clinicians and healthcare professionals went on strike throughout California in December of 2018, David and Seong Brown joined them on the picket line in San Francisco. Just months earlier, their daughter Elizebeth Brown had died by suicide, and they didn’t want other parents to face the same struggles getting care […]
June 24th, 2020
June 2020 PULSE
In June, NUHW members held firm in rejecting an illegal gag order sought by Kaiser, held an informational picket at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, stood up to anti-mask zealots in Orange County, and demanded COVID-19 testing for potentially exposed colleagues at Queen of the Valley. Check out the stories below, and be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, […]
June 24th, 2020
News of the Month — June 2020
NUHW was one of only three unions listed by Fox Business News under the title, “What are the Top Healthcare Unions.” NUHW Vice President Ken Rogers was quoted in this story by Capital & Mainand interviewed in this podcast about the pandemic’s impact on mental health care. Throughout American history, Black people have endured a […]
June 24th, 2020
Members in Orange County advocate for mask policy
As COVID-19 cases started to rise in Orange County, NUHW members began calling county supervisors asking that they reinstate an order requiring people to wear masks in public spaces. The order was rescinded after anti-mask zealots threatened the safety of the county’s public health officer, Nichole Quick, ultimately leading to her resignation. Many of those […]
June 24th, 2020
Queen workers win resumption of stronger COVID-19 precautions following exposures
Executives at Queen of the Valley Medical Center learned the hard way that they put the hospital’s reputation at risk when they put workers and patients at risk of contracting COVID-19. At a moment when coronavirus cases were rapidly increasing in Napa County, Queen of the Valley inexplicably stopped testing all newly admitted patients; stopped […]