Eight mental health workers will end their five-day hunger strike at 6 p.m. this evening outside the Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center with clergy and supporters at their side.

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The recent session in Sacramento, which included a visit from the capital city’s mayor, helped equip workers with the tools to build power in the workplace.

NUHW now represents workers at all six Providence hospitals in Northern California and more than 4,300 Providence employees statewide.

By folding Children’s Hospital Oakland into UCSF Health, the university would force NUHW members into different unions with contracts that would result in significantly less take-home pay.

Workers are fighting for fair wages to improve care and end rampant turnover at West Anaheim Medical Center, which racked up more than double the statewide average in patient complaints and state citations.

Now in their seventh month on strike, Kaiser mental health workers are continuing to escalate their fight for a fair contract and mental health parity at California’s largest HMO.

Frontline caregivers at Prime Healthcare’s West Anaheim Medical Center will hold a midday picket line on Tuesday, April 22 to inform community members how the hospital’s below market wages are forcing an exodus of caregivers, compromising patient care.

Everyone is welcomed to participate this Saturday in an 8-mile walk, completely organized by strikers, to further demonstrate our resolve to win a fair contract. So far, about three dozen workers have signed up for the walk

We had a great presence at Saturday's Bernie Sanders / Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fighting Oligarchy rally in Los Angeles. 

Our eight fellow workers ended their hunger strike this evening with colleagues and clergy by their side. Over the past five days, they have demonstrated their resolve to make Kaiser finally treat behavioral health care – and those who provide and receive it – with dignity and respect.

Our hunger strikers are doing well after an exciting second day of their five-day action. The biggest highlight was a visit from Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.

Striking Kaiser therapists are continuing a five-day hunger strike today in Los Angeles.

Eight workers began a 5-day hunger strike today outside Kaiser’s Los Angeles Medical Center. were joined throughout the day by fellow Kaiser workers, Kaiser patients, Los Angeles Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, and labor icon Dolores Huerta

NUHW represents workers at every Providence hospital in Northern California after 200 workers at Healdsburg Hospital voted to join our union.

Fed up with Kaiser Permanente’s failure to address the needs of patients, mental health professionals will hold a five-day hunger strike beginning April 7.

We kicked off this week by symbolizing the silencing effect Kaiser’s broken mental health system has on our patients and communities. We know the system is fraught with bureaucracy because we see our patients try to self advocate within it, and even with our support, often fail to get the care they need and deserve.  

We had a successful action in Bakersfield on Thursday with more than 30 strikers participating, including folks from the Inland Empire, Orange County and Los Angeles.

Workers are protesting the university’s planned integration of the hospital into UCSF Health — a move that would significantly reduce take home pay for workers in the East Bay.