With worker support for joining NUHW crystal clear, the hospital chain opted to recognize their union rather than to request a formal vote.
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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 single-payer Medicare for All healthcare system. Find out how much you’d save.
NUHW experienced strong growth in 2022 as well as unprecedented interest from healthcare workers interested in unionizing.
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 payroll error.
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 Luther King Jr. Day as a paid holiday.
The vote by RNs and therapists marks the latest organizing victory for NUHW in the Sutter system.
Raises will average 40 percent over four years under the agreement, which also includes making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a paid holiday.
Several U.S. senators have written Kaiser CEO Greg Adams calling on Kaiser to settle a contract with its mental health therapists.
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.
