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The National Union of Healthcare Workers is a worker-led movement dedicated to improving the lives of caregivers and patients.
Overview
Location
United States, California, Emeryville
Employees
51-200
Phone
+1 510-834-2009
Founded date
2009
Mentions in press and media 11
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| Sep 30, 2022 | Letters: Instead of crosswalks, build Waikiki overpasses; Put needed housing, not stadium, at Halawa; Striking Kaiser care workers need support | CRAIG T. KOJIMA / STAR-ADVERTISER Aloha Stadium, seen here in February, remains mostly closed while controversy swirls over competing proposals for the site. Regarding the city’s plans for new crosswalks in Waikiki, apparently the city engi... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | Despite certain fixes, Kaiser Permanente’s mental healthcare still lags | Kaiser therapists say that the HMO has figured out how to game the system set up by California regulators to measure progress without meaningfully improving care. They describe a model that relies on perfunctory intake interviews, conducted... |
| Nov 8, 2019 | As Kaiser Permanente faces another labor battle, critics question its mission | Kaiser Permanente, which just narrowly averted one massive strike, is facing another one Monday. The ongoing labor battles have undermined the health giant’s once-golden reputation as a model of cost-effective care that caters to satisfied ... |
| Nov 8, 2019 | Bruising labor battles put Kaiser Permanente’s reputation on the line | As the labor disputes have played out loudly, ricocheting off the bargaining table and into the public realm, some critics believe that the nonprofit health system is becoming more like its for-profit counterparts and is no longer living up... |
| Jul 12, 2019 | 85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers head toward a strike vote | Labor unrest is escalating at Kaiser Permanente, with unions for 85,000 of the healthcare giant’s workers saying Friday that they are taking steps toward a potential strike because talks on a new contract had stalled. The workers — who incl... |
| Jun 10, 2019 | Kaiser Permanente mental health workers call off threatened strike | Citing progress in contract talks, about 4,000 mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente called off a strike they had threatened to begin Tuesday at the healthcare giant’s California facilities. The National Union of Healthcare Workers sai... |
| California joins other states trying to reduce wait times for mental healthcare | When Greta Christina fell into a deep depression five years ago, she called up her therapist in San Francisco. She’d had a great connection with the provider when she needed therapy in the past. She was delighted to learn that he was now “i... | |
| Inside Kaiser’s strike: Mental health workers say they refuse to keep providing subpar care | Kathy Ray has been working at Kaiser Permanente for 30 years. She said the organization is changing — now run by “MBAs” who she believes are far more concerned with profit than the wellbeing of patients and staff. That’s why she joined thou... | |
| Bruising labor battles put Kaiser Permanente’s reputation on the line | Kaiser Permanente, which just narrowly averted one massive strike, is facing another one Monday. The ongoing labor battles have undermined the health giant’s once-golden reputation as a model of cost-effective care that caters to satisfied ... |
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When was nuhw.org founded?
nuhw.org was founded in 2009.
What has the press written about nuhw.org?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning nuhw.org, among them “Letters: Instead of crosswalks, build Waikiki overpasses; Put needed housing, not stadium, at Halawa; Striking Kaiser care workers need support” (Sep 30, 2022) and “Despite certain fixes, Kaiser Permanente’s mental healthcare still lags” (Dec 18, 2019).
Is nuhw.org still active?
Yes, nuhw.org is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 19, 2022.