Our fourth week on strike began with energetic picket lines, a powerful action in Los Angeles and fresh interest from local media. Reporters from KNBC and Telemundo visited the Anaheim picket line, college newspaper reporters and the county Labor Federation president visited the San Diego picket line and KNX news radio sent a reporter to the picket line outside the Los Angeles Medical Center.
Also in Los Angeles, a contingent of strikers briefly took over an intersection outside the hospital (away from the Emergency Department) in a demonstration that we are ready to fight harder for a fair contract.
More Workers Joining the Strike
Two workers began striking today after dealing with the chaos inside Kaiser’s system during the strike and more workers are planning to join them over the next week.
Upcoming Actions
Every week there’s an effort to bring people together on the same picket line. This week, we’re gathering Thursday in Fontana to enjoy some homemade spicy guacamole. The location is 9961 Sierra Avenue in Fontana.
On Wednesday, November 20, we’ll be handing out new strike t-shirts to everyone on the picket line.
Save The Date: On Thursday, November 21, we’ll be holding simultaneous lunchtime actions outside Kaiser headquarters in Pasadena and Oakland. While strikers gather in Pasadena, Kaiser mental health workers in Northern California will gather outside Kaiser’s corporate headquarters in Oakland to rally in support of the strike and a fair contract in Southern California. More details to come.
Hardship Fund info and other resources
This week, approximately $150,000 in hardship fund proceeds will be disbursed by our member-led volunteer committee. NUHW’s Executive Board has approved allocating $125,000 from our reserve fund to the hardship fund and allocating up to $125,000 per week throughout the strike.
The hardship fund is a member-led effort to ensure people have additional resources to stay out as long as it takes to win. It is not, however, intended to replace weekly wages.
You can find the official rules for disbursement here and the application form here. Available funds are based solely on funds received through the crowdfunding campaign. Note that applications for the fund are now due Fridays at 5pm for disbursement for the following Friday.
Be sure to share the donation links with your extended networks to ensure we have adequate funds for disbursement. Please be patient as the committee works out our workflow and challenges with distributing such large amounts of money.
If you need support with groceries, we have food donations coming in from labor allies. If you would like a grocery box, please fill out this form or ask your organizer to share the form with you.
The Los Angeles Labor Federation, in partnership with the non-profit Labor Community Services, has access to resources and information on how to defer mortgage and utility payments, as well as access to other financial support. Check our campaign website under “Financial Support Services Research” for further info.
Healthcare workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland are preparing to launch an open-ended strike Wednesday, June 18, to stop UCSF Health from illegally canceling their union contracts
After nine months of fruitless contract negotiations, caregivers at West Anaheim Medical Center will begin a 5-day strike at 5 a.m. Monday, May 26 through 8 p.m. Friday, June 30.
The five-day by 163 caregivers strike started May 26 and will continue through Friday as workers are demanding market-rate salaries to reverse surging turnover and state citations against the Prime Healthcare hospital.
More than 70 percent of NUHW members at UCSF Children’s Hospital Oakland have signed strike authorization papers as part of their fight to keep their union and their hard-earned take-home ...
Less than 48 hours after NUHW members in Southern California reached an agreement to settle a 196-day strike against Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO was facing withering criticism during an ...
The new contract for nearly 2,400 Kaiser Permanente workers includes important gains but does not establish full equity for behavioral health within the Kaiser system.
Workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland are heading to San Francisco this week to urge the University of California Board of Regents to stop UCSF Health from cancelling their ...
Psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and other NUHW members will hold a public gathering with elected officials outside the State Capitol on Mental Health Matters Day.
After 196-day strike in Southern California, the new contract includes several improvements, including a defined benefit pension, but does not establish full equity for behavioral health within the Kaiser system.
NUHW will review the tentative agreement with its members. NUHW expects to complete the ratification vote by May 8. If ratified, the agreement will have immediate effect.
We were honored for our strike today at Los Angeles City Hall. About a dozen strikers were on hand to accept a special May Day Award from Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martinez ...
Workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland are preparing to go on strike to stop UCSF’s plan to integrate the hospital into UCSF Health — a move that would cost ...
The Assembly Health Committee on Tuesday voted 12-1 to advance AB 1429, (Bains, D-Delano) that would make it much easier for Kaiser patients to get fully reimbursed for out-of pocket ...
The Assembly Health Committee will hear AB 1429, which would require Kaiser to provide full reimbursement for patients paying out-of-pocket for behavioral health services that Kaiser should be providing.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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, ...
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 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.
We had another powerful action today with about 125 people at Kaiser’s Pasadena regional headquarters, including patients, elected officials and community allies.
Now in the sixth month of the longest mental health strike in California history, behavioral health workers at Kaiser took to the streets this month throughout Southern California.
As the Kaiser mental health strike enters its sixth month, a state agency has found that Kaiser still has not fixed long-standing deficiencies in its mental health services.
More than 120 people attended our rally and protest in San Diego today, including Kaiser patients, elected officials and allies from other unions. Several news outlets covered the event/
Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health workers from across Southern California will protest and march in Bakersfield Thursday, joined by elected officials and community allies.
Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health workers from across Southern California will protest outside Kaiser’s regional headquarters in Pasadena Wednesday joined by patients, elected officials and community allies.
It’s been over five months since nearly 2,400 Kaiser Permanente mental health therapists, psychologists, social workers and psychiatric nurses went on strike in Southern California, determined to make Kaiser stop ...
With Oakland facing a watershed election, NUHW members, many of whom live and work in the city, are knocking on doors to elect the progressive, pro-worker icon as the city’s ...
NUHW is working in close collaboration with community and elected allies to protect our communities against the Trump Administration’s political and legislative attacks on health care.
We had a very positive experience visiting Greg Adams’ church on Sunday. Although Adams wasn’t there, our delegation of about 50 striking workers received a warm welcome from parishioners who ...
Statement by Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, on the the suspension of mediation aimed at settling the Kaiser Southern California Mental Health Strike, now ...
Kaiser Permanente has agreed to a focused mediation process aimed at settling a strike by its nearly 2,400 Southern California mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and psychologists.
Approved by NUHW’s member-led Executive Board, the updated resolution commits NUHW to protect the rights of all of its members and their patients, including transgender people, to be able to ...
The protest was the first act of civil disobedience during any NUHW Kaiser strike, and came one day after Governor Newsom requested both sides enter focused mediation.
More than 2,000 NUHW members held their first region-wide action to demand contracts that will provide market salaries and safeguard care in their communities.
After no progress during heated bargaining session Monday, workers will wait for Kaiser to agree to mediation, as first requested by Gov. Newsom, before returning to the bargaining table.
Kaiser has still not agreed to the governor’s request for focused mediation, and we are organizing allies, including elected leaders and union leaders, to ramp up the pressure on Kaiser ...
NUHW’s Executive Board has reaffirmed our Sanctuary Union status and amended our 2025 resolution in response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on immigrants, transgender, and LGBTQ+ people.
More than 2,000 healthcare workers at Providence hospitals and hospices throughout Northern California are holding their first region-wide Day of Action to call attention to severe understaffing and sharp cuts ...
We sent a powerful message to Kaiser officials today demonstrating our resolve to win a fair contract that will treat us as equals in the Kaiser system and guarantee better ...
Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health workers, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, will travel from picket lines across Southern California Friday and risk arrest to stage a mass ...
With Kaiser trying to claim we’re divided because some of us have had to return to work four months into the strike, it’s critical that we demonstrate our continued determination ...
We commemorated Day 100 of the strike this week with vigils honoring Kaiser patients. Guests on the picket line this week included Congressman Mark Levin and California Labor Federation President ...
The program is geared toward building a pipeline of new organizers for NUHW, and helping members and allies build their organizing skills and determine if they have a future in ...
Gonzalez-Morales, a physical therapy assistant at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in San Pedro, became a leader in the fight for a first contract.
Salaries for workers at Keck Hospital of USC and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center will increase by an average of 24 percent under the new agreement, which has no takeaways.
We had several guests on our picket lines today, headlined by California State Treasurer Fiona Ma addressing workers at LAMC. She talked from the heart about her family’s mental health ...
We welcomed some wonderful guests on our picket lines this week. On Wednesday in Lancaster, a 7- year-old girl handed workers artificial roses, and each rose had a heart-shaped tag ...
We began the 4th month of our strike in fine form today. ABC7 came out early to the Woodland Hills picket to interview people on the picket line. In Downey, ...
In the first negotiating session since October, Kaiser Permanente failed to present any new proposals aimed at reaching an agreement to end the strike by its nearly 2,400 Southern ...
For the first time since Oct. 25, striking Kaiser Permanente mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and psychologists will return to the bargaining table today. However, the workers, who ...
We were back on several picket lines today, but with the LAMC line still shut down due to the wildfires several of us volunteered throughout the Los Angeles metro area ...
With Kaiser having cancelled our bargaining session that had been scheduled for yesterday due to the wildfires, we are scheduled to resume bargaining with Kaiser Thursday, January 16.
It’s been three months and Kaiser is finally meeting us back at the bargaining table. We resume THIS THURSDAY January 9 at 10 a.m. at the Hilton in Glendale
We rang in the new year resolved in our fight to improve Kaiser’s broken mental health system. And while Kaiser paraded around the idea that it’s “shifting paradigms in care” ...
We’re holding strong on the picket lines following the holiday, with good attendance and ongoing support from elected officials, community allies, and patients, who have stepped up to share their ...
A dozen news outlets covered our Zoom press conference this morning featuring four patients who have struggled to get the mental health care they need during the strike.
There has already been some media attention about the joint letters from State Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas — and a majority of state ...
A majority of California legislators have signed onto letters calling on Kaiser CEO Greg Adams to end a strike by Southern California mental health professionals by agreeing to their proposals ...
Español Note: Viewing some of these stories may require a subscription. The Kaiser Mental Health Strike, which is now in its ninth week, continues to generate coverage including stories on ...
More than 500 workers at Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance voted to join NUHW in December, joining ranks with over 3,000 of their fellow Providence employees throughout California.
In a highly unusual action, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire, and a majority of California legislators signed letters urging Kaiser to end the nine-week-old strike ...
Both letters are in. On Thursday, State Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire sent a letter to Kaiser CEO Greg Adams, signed by a majority of state senators, calling on ...
Nearly 400 strikers participated in a major action today outside Kaiser headquarters in Pasadena. The event began with a food and toy distribution at a nearby union hall before a ...
The California chapter of the National Association of Social Workers has written a letter to Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams calling on Kaiser to “resume good faith negotiations with NUHW’s ...
We had an extra good week in San Diego, where several workers were special guests at the Labor Council’s holiday party on Wednesday. They spoke about the strike and got ...
We had an eventful day on the picket lines, especially in Lancaster, where Kaiser security illegally walked around with a clipboard taking notes on what they saw. Strikers recorded Kaiser’s ...
Between the National Association of Social Workers and the leaders of the State Senate and Assembly, a growing number of influential stakeholders are telling Kaiser it needs to settle this ...
This week, State Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire joined Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas in calling on Kaiser CEO Greg Adams to “agree to the union’s reasonable contract proposals.”
Week Six of our strike is off to a festive start. We had a lot of fun with our Where’s Waldo/Where’s Kaiser theme. Someone on the San Diego line even ...
With a strike by nearly 2,400 Kaiser mental health professionals in Southern California entering its second month Thursday, Kaiser therapists in Northern California will join their striking colleagues for simultaneous ...
With Kaiser facing increased political pressure to return to the bargaining table, striking workers in Southern California and their counterparts in the north took their message directly to company executives.
More than three-quarters of the 2,300 Providence workers fighting to win common contractual standards throughout Northern California have signed a unity petition, pledging to work together to safeguard care in ...
We commemorated the one-month mark of our strike with two boisterous rallies in Pasadena and Oakland. About 300 strikers converged on Kaiser’s regional headquarters in Southern California.
With a strike by nearly 2,400 Kaiser mental health professionals in Southern California entering its second month Thursday, Kaiser therapists in Northern California will join their striking colleagues for simultaneous ...
We started Week 5 with new people on the picket lines and a strong showing in Los Angeles after Kaiser and the police blocked the distribution of food boxes on Friday.
Kaiser Permanente’s state-mandated contingency plan for providing timely and appropriate mental health care during an ongoing strike is woefully inadequate, without any detail for how it is providing critical mental ...
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas signed a powerful letter on our behalf to Kaiser CEO Greg Adams; Kaiser blocked groceries from being delivered to striking workers; we shine light on Kaiser’s ...
In a powerful display of strength and solidarity, more than 100 of us from across Southern California — along with allies from other unions — stopped Kaiser from hosting a ...
Kaiser Permanente’s state-mandated contingency plan for providing timely and appropriate mental health care during an ongoing strike is woefully inadequate, without any detail for how it is providing critical mental ...
We started the third week of our strike with good energy on the picket lines and strong interest from media and state authorities about Kaiser’s inadequate and incomplete plan to ...
Kaiser Permanente’s state-mandated contingency plan for providing timely and appropriate mental health care during an ongoing strike is woefully inadequate, without any detail for how it is providing critical mental ...
We wrapped up an energetic second week on the picket line with a couple of special guests. At Los Angeles Medical Center, the band Ozomatli performed on the picket line! ...
It took a strike and months of organizing and agitation but NUHW members at AHMC Seton Medical Center and Seton Coastside won a contract that provides strong raises restores ...
The strike began on October 21 and will continue throughout Southern California until Kaiser reaches a fair agreement that benefits workers and patients.
We had one of the biggest turnouts for bargaining today in recent memory. More than 50 of us participated in contract negotiations to show that we’re united and determined to ...
After an unproductive bargaining session Wednesday, Kaiser Permanente’s nearly 2,400 mental health professionals will return to picket lines today, including the first picket line in Bakersfield since the strike began ...
Negotiations resume today as the leading voice for social workers in California backs striking mental health professionals and calls on Kaiser Permanente to address their “critical issues.”
We had great turnout and lots of energy on our picket lines for Day 1 of our open-ended strike. More than 500 NUHW members walked the picket line at Los ...
The open-ended strike is a last resort for caregivers who have fought for years to make Kaiser fix a mental health system so broken that it was fined $50 million in 2023
Nearly 2,400 mental health professionals will form picket lines outside Kaiser facilities throughout Southern California demanding that the nation’s largest non-profit HMO fix a mental health system that’s so broken, ...
The strike announcement comes exactly one year after California’s top health regulator fined Kaiser a record $50 million for numerous mental health deficiencies including understaffing its mental health services.
The strike announcement comes exactly one year after California’s top health regulator fined Kaiser a record $50 million for numerous mental health deficiencies including understaffing its mental health services.
Caregivers in Southern California approved strike authorization after Kaiser rejected proposals to address staffing shortages and provide more time for critical patient care responsibilities
Both lawmakers accepted their awards during NUHW’s Leadership Conference and pledged to further their efforts to help workers and patients achieve parity for behavioral health care.
After four of the leading candidates for California governor appeared on stage together for the first time at NUHW’s leadership conference, Tony Thurmond was the leading vote-getter in a non-binding ...
In a non-binding straw poll that followed a candidate forum sponsored by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, held in San Francisco Sunday, September 29, NUHW members in attendance and ...
Español Caregivers at Dominican Hospital’s outpatient rehabilitation center held a picket on September 18, calling for a fair contract that will help the center retain workers and provide the best ...
Shortly after authorizing a strike, more than 100 workers at the Novato Healthcare Center won a contract that builds on the raises they secured months earlier.
Before your cast your ballot, see which candidates support us! NUHW members voted to endorse local, state, and federal candidates who support working people in fighting for fair contracts and ...
The certified nursing assistant, who found his “voice” after learning English, is helping his coworkers at Novato Health Center speak up for themselves.
The nearly 30 workers are determined to increase their salaries and eliminate appointment quotas that have resulted in increased turnover and lower staffing levels.
Lateefah Simon, who is running to succeed Barbara Lee in representing Oakland and the East Bay in Congress, visited NUHW’s Emeryville office this month to talk about how she can ...
Shortly after joining NUHW, caregivers at Providence Hospice filed a ULP charge that has led to a settlement that guarantees appropriate staffing levels and extra pay for people who take ...
After previously holding an informational picket, workers at Keck–USC hospitals are preparing to strike if they can’t reach an agreement that will provide fair pay and safe staffing levels.
Despite staffing shortages and worker burnout, the university is demanding wage freezes for some workers and the removal of a guarantee of the free family HMO plan which has currently ...
The workers, who include licensed vocational nurses, respiratory therapists, housekeepers, nursing assistants, medical technicians, occupational therapists, and physical therapists, voted over the past year to join the National Union of ...
The Physical Therapist at Visiting Nurses Association of Santa Cruz is an exercise enthusiast who helped lead her coworkers in the bargaining of their new contract.
NUHW members at the nonprofit mental health provider will get an additional three percent raise and become more involved in helping their employer secure additional funding.
When Kaiser claimed that mental health professionals in Hawai’i only qualified for a portion of their $5,000 performance bonus, they showed that Kaiser was crunching numbers incorrectly and won their ...
With contract bargaining set to begin for NUHW-represented mental health professionals in Southern California, The California Labor Federation passed a resolution calling on Kaiser to bargain a fair contract.
After NUHW members in Oakland and Richmond struck two years ago to make Kaiser Permanente recognize MLK Day as a paid holiday, they have begun organizing to do the same ...
With the university proposing wage freezes and healthcare cuts that would worsen an understaffing crisis, NUHW members picketed hospitals across the Keck-USC system.
In the aftermath of a successful strike in Northern California, their counterparts in Southern California are uniting behind a platform to win similar gains.
The five-year agreement includes significantly bigger raises than management had offered before workers held their first work stoppage in more than five years.
On Mental Health Matters Day at the State Capitol, teams of NUHW members and staff met with dozens of lawmakers and their staffers to secure support for two NUHW-sponsored bills.
Long-tenured members at a Marin County nursing home will get 8 percent raises over the next two years in addition to bridge toll reimbursements and more bereavement leave.
More than 150 professionals at the two facilities voted this month to join their colleagues as NUHW members — giving NUHW more than 2,000 members at Providence facilities throughout Northern California.
The Sacramento-based psychologist is a fierce mental health advocate who leads several initiatives to improve access to mental health care for many of Sacramento’s most vulnerable residents.
The first-term Assemblymember from Santa Cruz lost her husband to suicide. Now she’s joining with NUHW to help Californians access the care they need and make health plans provide it.
In a show of strength, nearly 2,000 NUHW members at Keck Medicine of USC, rallied against the university’s attempt to take away their benefits or their right to advocate for ...
San Diego became the third county in the last six months to urge Kaiser to restore critical patient care time for mental health therapists in Southern California.
More than 2,000 workers filled the streets of Hollywood, marching and chanting before the start of a rally that included remarks from NUHW member Elnora Oseguera.
The SF Labor Council honored NUHW mental health workers for their 10-week strike that forced Kaiser to start making major improvements to its mental health services.
With some patients being put on a waitlist due to lack of available caregivers, NUHW members at Sutter’s Visiting Nurse Association of Santa Cruz are fighting for better pay with ...
NUHW members from across all facilities are showing up to the negotiations in a united front to win improvements to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
After a long delay due to the university’s legal maneuverings, caregivers at the USC Engemann Student Health Center voted to join more than 2,000 of their colleagues as NUHW members.
The two bills would help patients advocate for their rights and help state authorities hold health plans accountable for providing legally-required health care.
NUHW members at Sutter Health’s Sacramento psychiatric hospital held a three-day strike as they continue to fight for a first contract with fair wages and no healthcare takeaways.
More than 100 medical technicians at MarinHealth Medical Center struck for one day as they fight to protect their health benefits and win strong raises.
Sandra Leal-Lopez and her colleagues in Panorama City have been creative in fighting back against Kaiser’s cut to Patient Management Time and they’re gearing up to demand more from Kaiser ...
In violation of their contract, the hospital changed its health plan forcing workers to pay up to $6,000 a year to keep access to their doctors and accept a plan ...
In March, workers fought to restore birthing services at a Providence hospital in Petaluma, while Providence workers throughout the region prepared to bargain a single contract.
In a unanimous vote, the board expressed its opposition to Kaiser’s decision to reduce the amount of time therapists have to perform critical patient care duties.
The Anesthesia Tech at USC Norris Cancer Hospital is using his bargaining experience as former president of the State Parks Peace Officers Association to serve on his 200-member Keck-USC Contract ...
Congresswoman Porter spoke to an audience of nearly 200 supporters at NUHW’s Emeryville headquarters with local electeds and union leaders pledging to help her win the March 5 Primary Election ...
The bills, authored by Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, would help state regulators hold accountable health plans that violate parity laws and help patients successfully advocate for their right to treatment.
In a major organizing victory, more than 80 rehabilitation therapists, social workers, and dietitians voted overwhelmingly to join their coworkers as NUHW members.
Nora, a housekeeper at Sutter California Pacific Medical Center, walked picket lines with her mother before becoming a union leader herself at the San Francisco hospital.
The four-year agreement at the Santa Cruz facility will boost wages 18 percent, while capping insurance premium increases and boosting pay for weekend work.
NUHW members stood in solidarity this month with students, parents and teachers in Glendale where far-right agitators have held violent protests and are now seeking seats on the city’s school ...
The bill, which now heads to the State Senate, would require health plans to maintain accurate lists of in-network providers, including mental health therapists.
One year after using their collective power to win a great contract, workers at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center put their power on display once again to oust problem managers ...
Having successfully fought to keep their community hospital open through two bankruptcies, NUHW members are now confronting a new owner that is slashing patient care services and worker healthcare benefits.
Fed up with severe understaffing and 18 months of fruitless contract negotiations, nearly 150 NUHW members held a one-day strike December 6 at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry in Sacramento.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors became the first elected body to pass a resolution calling on Kaiser to reverse cuts that leave therapists in Southern California with even less ...
Local media outlets covered the picket that included several local elected leaders supporting NUHW members, who have been in contract negotiations for 18 months. A one-day strike has been authorized ...
In just 18 months NUHW has gone from not representing any hospice workers to representing nearly 400 at five workplaces. The latest to join include workers at Hospice East Bay ...
The endorsement was decided by NUHW members who voted to endorse the Orange County congress member following a candidate forum during our Leadership Conference in Los Angeles.
Approximately 20 pharmacy and laboratory workers held a three-day strike demanding wage increases on par with what their NUHW-represented colleagues recently won at the hospital.
NUHW helped spearhead the bill to move California farther along the path to a universal healthcare system through its leadership in Healthy California Now, the state’s largest coalition of single-payer, ...
In a major victory for Kaiser therapists and patients, Kaiser acknowledged systemic failures in its mental healthcare system and committed to addressing them. The agreement settled two state investigations, one ...
Approximately 470 workers at a major Providence hospital voted to join NUHW, while smaller groups workers at two facilities voted to join their colleagues as NUHW members.
Instead of providing adequate staffing levels, Kaiser is seeking to force homecare workers to work across established service lines and service areas, threatening patients with longer waits for care.
Medical Social Workers in Kern County recently won open schedules and ended the practice of booked appointments in their department. The old booking practice had interfered with their autonomy and ...
As NUHW members at Providence hospitals in Northern California prepare to bargain their next contract, union steward Billie Jean Barton is encouraging her coworkers — including her own son — ...
After a year of paycheck errors that triggered a fierce response from stewards, NUHW members at Queen of the Valley Medical Center secured $250 in penalty pay for any future errors.
In filing complaint with Kaiser’s accreditation agency, NUHW cites HMO’s failure to meet the mental health staffing levels it had agreed to in its Corrective Action Plan.
In part due the mental health timely access law NUHW sponsored, Model of Care Committees in Northern California have made strong recommendations to increase access and reduce caseloads.
NUHW’s newest members at West Anaheim Medical Center will receive average wage increases of 26 percent with some workers securing 61 percent raises over the next three years.
Elected officials, including Rep. Katie Porter (shown above), are joining NUHW members in opposing an attempt by Kaiser to reduce the amount of time mental health therapists in Southern California ...
The three-year agreement will boost wages by an average of 22 percent and provide safer working conditions amid a sharp rise in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes.
During his 17 years at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, Isidro Sanchez has helped build a union that helped workers win respect and significantly higher pay from their employer.
Shortly before a grievance was set to go to arbitration, Queen of the Valley Medical Center agreed to create a higher-paying Phlebotomist classification and pay several workers who should have ...
After sailing through the State Senate, SB 770, a bill that would set the stage for groundbreaking reform of California’s healthcare financing and delivery system, advanced out of the State ...
The new contracts for more than 1,300 NUHW members include provisions to protect quality pediatric care in the East Bay as well as substantial pay increases and job security protections.
Whether it’s singing, reciting poetry, or defending her colleagues, the mental health counselor at Richmond Area Multi-Services never hesitates to make herself heard.
The annual mental health advocacy event in Sacramento presented an opportunity for NUHW members to meet peers and inform the public about our ongoing parity work.
Chanting “Keep OB Open,” dozens of workers protested the closure of Petaluma Valley Hospital’s birthing center and vowed to continue fighting to reopen it.
More than 1,300 NUHW members are preparing for a potential three-day strike after UCSF refused to make movement in contract negotiations following a one-day strike in April.
In a unanimous ruling, an appeals court revived a class-action lawsuit by families of Kaiser Permanente patients who claim they or their loved ones did not receive adequate mental health ...
NUHW was named Organization of the Year by the Stonewall Democratic Club, the largest LGBTQ+, feminist, and progressive political advocacy organization in Southern California.
SB 770 would set California on a path to becoming the first U.S. state to create a healthcare system in which no resident is denied care based on age, employment, ...
Workers at the USC Downtown Clinic overwhelmingly voted to join NUHW, while our union’s more than 1,700 members at Keck-USC helped their colleagues beat back the university’s attempt to deny ...
Since a 2014 affiliation agreement put UCSF Health in control of the non-profit 223-bed Oakland hospital and satellite clinics, NUHW members and their colleagues have repeatedly raised concerns about UCSF ...
After failing to accomplish their goals in their previous contract campaign, workers at Providence Cedars Sinai Tarzana Medical Center built unprecedented unity to win bigger raises and other gains this ...
Several years before prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Providence for sending debt collectors after patients who qualified for free care, NUHW members were blowing the whistle on its charity care ...
At its annual Architects of Justice Awards banquet this month, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice honored the approximately 850 nurses and professional workers at the Tenet hospital who ...
The three-year agreement preserves pensions and includes guaranteed raises without which Kaiser stood to lose even more therapists, resulting in even longer appointment wait times for patients.
With Providence (St. Joseph Health) seeking to close the birthing center at Petaluma Valley Hospital in violation of its purchase agreement, caregivers are joining forces with community leaders to save ...
Sutter halted merit raises after workers voted to join NUHW, but workers stayed united, fought back and settled a complaint requiring that Sutter restore the raises with interest.
The Sacramento Bee recently ran a commentary about a tool designed by Healthy California Now and NUHW letting Californians calculate how much money they’d save if the state adopted a ...
After fighting to win penalty pay for payroll mistakes last summer, NUHW members at Providence hospitals acted fast to prevent the healthcare giant from illegally doubling payroll deductions after another ...
In a sit-down interview, Sabrina Chaumette, a Kaiser therapist in Oakland, reflects on last year’s strike by NUHW-represented clinicians in Oakland and Richmond that forced Kaiser to finally honor Martin ...
Joined by parents and community leaders, hundreds of workers called on UCSF to agree to contractual provisions that would safeguard jobs and medical services in the East Bay.
After walking picket lines with her colleagues during what was the longest strike ever by mental healthcare workers, the Kaiser therapist made more history last year by becoming the first ...
