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NUHW hosts Governor Candidate Forum on Sunday, September 28

August 27, 2025

This is when the race to become California’s next governor truly begins. At 10 a.m. on Sunday, September 28, the leading candidates for California governor will share the stage at our Leadership Conference. The forum will be moderated by Lisa Matthews, U.S. Planning Editor, Associated Press, and candidates will take questions from a panel of journalists, including  Melanie Mason, California Politics Reporter, Politico; Amrit Singh, Anchor and Host, Spectrum News 1; and Phil Willon, California Politics Editor, Los Angeles Times.

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: April 11, 2025

  • April 12, 2025

Our eight fellow workers ended their hunger strike this evening with colleagues and clergy by their side. Over the past five days, they have demonstrated their resolve to make Kaiser ...

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Negotiations to resume next week in Kaiser Permanente mental health strike

  • April 11, 2025

Eight mental health workers will end their five-day hunger strike at 6 p.m. this evening outside the Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center with clergy and supporters at their side.

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: April 8, 2025

  • April 9, 2025

Our hunger strikers are doing well after an exciting second day of their five-day action. The biggest highlight was a visit from Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.

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Complaint: Kaiser Permanente is illegally using unlicensed clerical staff and algorithm to triage mental health patients in Southern California

  • April 8, 2025

Striking Kaiser therapists are continuing a five-day hunger strike today in Los Angeles.

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: April 7, 2025

  • April 8, 2025

Eight workers began a 5-day hunger strike today outside Kaiser’s Los Angeles Medical Center. were joined throughout the day by fellow Kaiser workers, Kaiser patients, Los Angeles Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, ...

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Workers at Healdsburg Hospital vote overwhelmingly to join NUHW

  • April 4, 2025

NUHW represents workers at every Providence hospital in Northern California after 200 workers at Healdsburg Hospital voted to join our union.

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Kaiser mental health professionals launch L.A. hunger strike

  • April 4, 2025

Fed up with Kaiser Permanente’s failure to address the needs of patients, mental health professionals will hold a five-day hunger strike beginning April 7.

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Kaiser Mental Health Care Strike: April 2, 2025

  • April 2, 2025

We kicked off this week by symbolizing the silencing effect Kaiser’s broken mental health system has on our patients and communities. We know the system is fraught with bureaucracy because ...

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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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