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Member Profile: Salote Lutui

“It’s a special role to serve your community and to also serve other people of color,” says Salote, a mental health specialist at RAMS.

Member Profile: Salote Lutui

The mental health specialist at Richmond Area Multi-Services wants to be a voice for her colleagues and her community as an NUHW steward.

Workers to strike Seton Medical Center in Daly City Monday, March 25 and Tuesday March 26

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, March 21, 2024 Contact: Matthew Artz, 510-435-8035, martz@nuhw.org The two-day strike comes in response to the hospital imposing a restrictive new health plan that is forcing ...

News of the Month — March 2024

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

Kaiser therapists win fight for more reception support

In Kaiser’s Sacramento region, therapists aren’t just successfully advocating for themselves, they’re advocating for their support staff. At clinics in Sacramento, Folsom and Roseville, Kaiser had stopped providing consistent reception ...

NUHW investigation sparks complaint against Kaiser

In recent years, it’s become clear that Kaiser Permanente treats its mental health clinicians and patients worse in Southern California than in Northern California. Despite Kaiser’s chronic understaffing and documented ...

NUHW is sponsoring two mental health equity bills

NUHW is helping make 2024 a monumental year in the fight for mental health equity. In January, we worked with allies in the State Assembly to pass Assembly Bill 236, ...

RNs make Kaiser address failed call center rollout

When Kaiser introduced a regional call center that left psychiatric nurses inundated with messages and patients potentially waiting too long for care, the nurses successfully organized to demand improvements. Until ...

Model of Care committees further NorCal contract wins

The five Model of Care Committees in Northern California completed their work recently with strong gains for clinicians and overall patient care. Among the biggest victories are more Indirect Patient ...

Q&A with Sandra Leal-Lopez, LMFT

Sandra Leal-Lopez, LMFT, is a steward and former Bargaining Team member at Kaiser’s Panorama City clinic in Southern California. When Kaiser moved to cut Patient Management Time, known in Northern ...

Newly elected leaders take the reins

New president, secretary-treasurer, and 22-member Executive Board sworn into office as NUHW celebrates growing membership and growing influence There’s new leadership at the top of NUHW. Sophia Mendoza, who previously ...

NUHW expands presence at Providence San Pedro

Three months after nearly 500 service and tech workers at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro voted overwhelmingly to form a union with NUHW, 86 of their ...