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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: March 28, 2025

  • March 29, 2025
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.
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1,300 Children’s Hospital Oakland workers to rally against UCSF pay cut plan

  • March 28, 2025
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.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: March 26, 2025

  • March 27, 2025
We had another powerful action today with about 125 people at Kaiser’s Pasadena regional headquarters, including patients, elected officials and community allies. 
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Striking workers turn up the heat on Kaiser

  • March 26, 2025
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.
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NUHW launches Sanctuary for All initiative

  • March 26, 2025
: The project aims to ensure that everyone feels protected and valued in the workplace and beyond, regardless of their background or identity.
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New state report shows Kaiser mental health violations remain uncorrected

  • March 26, 2025
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.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: March 25, 2025

  • March 26, 2025
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/
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Striking mental health workers workers to march in Bakersfield, Thursday, March 27

  • March 25, 2025
Striking Kaiser Permanente mental health workers from across Southern California will protest and march in Bakersfield Thursday, joined by elected officials and community allies. 
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Striking mental health workers workers take fight to Kaiser Permanente’s Pasadena Regional HQ Wednesday, March 26

  • March 24, 2025
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. 
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Striking Kaiser Permanente Therapists, Social Workers and Nurses Take to the Streets in San Diego Tuesday, March 25

  • March 24, 2025
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 treating mental health care as a second-class service.
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Member profile: Valerie Aquinaldo

  • March 24, 2025
Aquinaldo, a respiratory therapist at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, continues her father’s union legacy
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NUHW members go all in for Barbara Lee

  • March 24, 2025
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 next mayor.
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