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 The order was rescinded after anti-mask zealots threatened the safety of the county’s public health officer, Nichole Quick, ultimately leading to her resignation.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 […]
June 24th, 2020
Santa Rosa Memorial workers picket over proposed benefit cuts
Over the past three years, caregivers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital have worked through a pandemic and two wildfires while the hospital has recorded operating profits exceeding $200 million. Yet, instead of honoring its caregivers with a fair contract, the hospital’s parent company, Providence St. Joseph Health, is proposing takeaways that would cut paid-time-off and […]
June 24th, 2020
Kaiser members hold firm in rejecting illegal gag order
NUHW members have beaten back an attempt by Kaiser Permanente to make them surrender their rights to organize patients and speak out about the challenges their patients face getting timely mental health care. After Kaiser mental health clinicians and healthcare professionals ratified new contracts last month, Kaiser illegally refused to implement the contracts, including raises, […]