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Labor Board sides with Rogers Behavioral Health workers, schedules union elections next week in Wisconsin

In February, Wisconsin mental health provider, Rogers Behavioral Health, illegally fired three caregivers for simply saying that they and their co-workers were forming a union. This week, the National Labor Relations ...

NEXT TUESDAY, APRIL 14: Petaluma Valley Hospital nurses to hold informational picket to protect cancelled shifts and short staffing

Nearly 130 registered nurses will picket Petaluma Valley Hospital Tuesday, April 14 to inform community members about the hospital’s dangerous proposals to enshrine its minimum staffing policy in their next ...

Healthcare Workers to picket Sutter hospitals in San Francisco and Sacramento Saturday, April 11

More than 1,100 Sutter Health workers who serve patients at Sutter hospitals in San Francisco and Sacramento, and at Sutter home care and hospice services across Northern California, will hold ...

Workers in Hollister, Merced, and Santa Cruz join NUHW

After NUHW members win strong contracts from their employers, workers at three facilities decided to become NUHW members themselves.

NUHW members win “Unionists of the Year” award

The Inland Empire Labor Council gave the honor to Kaiser mental health workers who staged a nearly seven-month strike that won important gains for patients and providers.

USC School of Pharmacy workers finally settle contract

The workers had to fight constant delays and other illegal maneuvers by the university before reaching an agreement that gives them raises of between 9 percent and 11 percent over ...

Ready to strike, nursing home workers notch big contract wins

NUHW members at San Francisco Post Acute and Novato Healthcare Center won contract victories by demonstrating unity and a willingness to fight for key improvements.

Mental health clinicians hold major strike with support from Kaiser Permanente nurses, engineers

NUHW members held a one-day Unfair Labor Practice Strike this month, alongside engineers and 23,000 registered nurses, who share their concerns about Kaiser’s increasing use of artificial intelligence to ...

Member profile: Dina Colino

Colino, a nursing assistant and NUHW steward, is ready to fight for herself and her coworkers as NUHW members at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center prepare to negotiate their next ...

News of the Month – March 2026

Read our roundup of the latest labor and healthcare news from top media outlets.

NUHW Statement on sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez

Farm workers contribute so much to our country and our movement. We believe that anything named after their union’s founding president should be renamed in their honor.

IBHS one-day strike: March 18, 2026

This strike put Kaiser on notice that we will not be silent as they try to roll back all our past victories and threaten our jobs and the quality of ...

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