Approximately 2,400 mental health therapists, social workers and psychologists who provide mental healthcare for Kaiser patients in the Bay Area, Central Valley and Sacramento are voting on authorizing a one-day strike.

Now an NUHW member, Rundles is ready to advocate for her coworkers and clients at FirstSteps for Kids in Los Angeles.

Español Note: Viewing some of these stories may require a subscription. NUHW member Ilana Marcucci-Morris and researcher Ciara Keegan appeared on the This Machine Kills Podcast, talking about Kaiser Permanente’s ...

With the race to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress already underway, NUHW members this month knocked on doors for State Senator Scott Wiener, who has authored multiple landmark mental health ...

After a nearly seven-month strike, in which mental health therapists won additional time for patient care duties that can’t be done during appointments, Kaiser is violating the agreement, and workers ...

The union vote is a response to constant turnover in recent years, which has worsened worker morale and patient care.

When their employer claimed that the new agreement didn’t provide full reimbursement for new license and certification fees, workers sprang into action to force management to backtrack.

NUHW released this statement in response to rules proposed by the Trump Administration that would effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors by threatening to pull federal funding for any ...

David Zelen has seen it all during his long career at Kaiser. In this Q&A, Zelen, who’s retiring this month, talks about why he and his coworkers were among the ...

NUHW members provided written and oral testimony that helped shape pioneering hospice regulations that will include favorable RN-to-patient ratios and more say for workers in how hospice care is provided.

NUHW has organized more than 1,300 new members at nine facilities in California and beyond over the past 12 months.

Mental health workers at Rogers Behavioral Health in Philadelphia have formed a union with NUHW, joining their counterparts in California, who won trailblazing contracts as NUHW members.

Workers at the San Francisco mental health nonprofit that serves many immigrant and LGBTQ+ residents held out for provisions that protect their rights from incursions by the Trump Administration.

Ramirez, a nursing assistant, is fighting to win a good first contract at her Providence hospital.

Español Note: Viewing some of these stories may require a subscription. KQED, the Bay Area’s public radio station, published a story talking to NUHW members about ongoing contract bargaining in ...

NUHW has long supported the right to gender-affirming care and the principle that no government should interfere in personal medical decisions.

Barbrie, a therapist at Rogers Behavioral Health in Los Angeles, helped her coworkers write a Hollywood ending with their unionization efforts.

After workers called for a three-day strike unless management agreed to return to the bargaining table after nearly four months without negotiations, management agreed to new bargaining dates just two ...

With a first contract in Lake County unanimously ratified, NUHW members who work for Wellpath inside three county jails have all won new contracts this fall.

The actions came after three months of bargaining during which the private-equity-backed company is insisting on wage rates that would worsen turnover and unsafe staffing levels.