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WEDNESDAY: Workers to picket Kindred Hospital Diego

September 22, 2026

More than 100 healthcare workers will picket outside Kindred Hospital San Diego on Wednesday, September 23, to call attention to severe understaffing amid ongoing contract negotiations at the 70-bed facility.

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How NUHW members won a great contract at Providence Tarzana

March 30, 2023

After failing to accomplish their goals in their previous contract campaign, workers at Providence Cedars Sinai Tarzana Medical Center built unprecedented unity to win bigger raises and other gains this ...

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NUHW on leading edge of fight for charity care

March 30, 2023

Several years before prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Providence for sending debt collectors after patients who qualified for free care, NUHW members were blowing the whistle on its charity care ...

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NUHW members at Elk Grove Unified School District win big raises

March 30, 2023

After re-opening their contract last year, the workers secured a 10 percent retroactive raise as well as an additional bonus and better benefits.

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Fountain Valley NUHW members honored at economic justice gala

March 30, 2023

At its annual Architects of Justice Awards banquet this month, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice honored the approximately 850 nurses and professional workers at the Tenet hospital who ...

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Member Profile: Lucy Cisneros

February 28, 2023

Petaluma Valley Hospital ultrasound tech brings her fighting spirit from the tennis court to her Providence (St. Joseph) hospital.

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Mental health therapists at Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii ratify contract ending 172-day strike

February 28, 2023

The three-year agreement preserves pensions and includes guaranteed raises without which Kaiser stood to lose even more therapists, resulting in even longer appointment wait times for patients.

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NUHW members help lead fight to save acclaimed birthing center

February 28, 2023

With Providence (St. Joseph Health) seeking to close the birthing center at Petaluma Valley Hospital in violation of its purchase agreement, caregivers are joining forces with community leaders to save ...

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Providence St. Joseph Health hospice workers join NUHW

February 28, 2023

Fighting to preserve their patient-first principles amid layoffs and cutbacks, the Sonoma County workers united behind the organizing drive.

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Newly unionized Sutter caregivers win fight for merit raises

February 28, 2023

Sutter halted merit raises after workers voted to join NUHW, but workers stayed united, fought back and settled a complaint requiring that Sutter restore the raises with interest.

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