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Member profile: Roxanne Bowdoin

  • November 25, 2024
Bowdoin, a nursing assistant at Cottonwood Healthcare Center, is an enterprising leader at work and at home.
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Providence workers reaffirm united front in Northern California contract campaign

  • November 25, 2024
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 their communities.
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Mixed results in November election

  • November 25, 2024
NUHW-backed candidates fared well locally, but there will be big challenges to protect workers’ rights on the federal level.
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Sacramento Behavioral Health Hospital workers vote to join NUHW

  • November 25, 2024
More than 260 caregivers withstood a fierce anti-union campaign to win a voice in their workplace.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 31

  • November 22, 2024
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.
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Press release: Exactly one month into strike, therapists will hold simultaneous rallies outside Kaiser headquarters in Pasadena and Oakland

  • November 20, 2024
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 noontime rallies outside Kaiser corporate offices in Pasadena and Oakland.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 29

  • November 19, 2024
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.
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Press release: Kaiser is subject of complaint over severely understaffed hospice services as strike enters fifth week

  • November 18, 2024
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 health services for its 4.8 million Southern California members.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 26

  • November 14, 2024
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 "efficiencies"; and of course, there was guacamole.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 24

  • November 14, 2024
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 successful party for major healthcare purchasers last night at Petco Park in San Diego.
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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: Day 22

  • November 12, 2024
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 […]
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Press release: State regulator opens enforcement investigation against Kaiser as strike enters fourth week

  • November 11, 2024
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 health services for its 4.8 million Southern California members.
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