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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 ...

NUHW sponsors new mental health parity bills

NUHW is teaming up with Assemblymebmer Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz) on two bills that would help state regulators better enforce recent mental health parity laws and help patients advocate for ...

NUHW hosts Katie Porter rally

For a few hours on February 24, NUHW’s Emeryville headquarters was the epicenter of California politics as nearly 200 supporters along with reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street ...

Reflecting on the longest ever mental health strike

This month marked the one year anniversary of the settlement that ended the longest strike by behavioral healthcare workers in U.S. history. For 172 days, NUHW-represented providers for Kaiser Permanente ...

Member Profile: Sal Goshorn

Anesthesia tech Sal Goshorn has experience bargaining employment contracts from his time as president of the State Parks Peace Officers of California.

Kindred San Diego professional workers ratify their first union contract

Not long after holding their first-ever strike, laboratory and pharmacy workers at Kindred Hospital San Diego unanimously ratified their first union contract that includes 23 percent wage increases over three ...

News of the Month – February 2024

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