Year One
Read and download the NUHW Year One report:
For the media | For healthcare workers
For more than 60 years, California healthcare workers have organized to win the highest standards in the country for caregivers and their patients.
When SEIU officials in Washington, D.C. started making cheap backroom deals with healthcare corporations that gave away workers’ rights and undermined patient care, California healthcare workers fought back. In retaliation, SEIU launched a disasterous takeover of the local union on Jan. 27, 2009.
The next day, scores of healthcare workers from across the state—elected leaders of their union—voted to declare their independence and establish a new, democratic union, with members in control.
In just one year, NUHW has:
- Organized 3,357 new members, making NUHW California’s fastest-growing union.
- Won 7 out of 9 elections against SEIU, with thousands of workers voting to reject SEIU’s top-down deals and take back control of their union. A majority of healthcare workers who’ve had elections have cast their votes for NUHW.
- Given a voice to formerly non-union workers at four hospitals and nursing homes, including 900 caregivers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital who won the nation’s biggest hospital election of 2009.
Read and download the NUHW Year One report:
For the media | For healthcare workers
When SEIU officials in Washington, D.C. started making cheap backroom deals with healthcare corporations that gave away workers’ rights and undermined patient care, California healthcare workers fought back. In retaliation, SEIU launched a disasterous takeover of the local union on Jan. 27, 2009.
The next day, scores of healthcare workers from across the state—elected leaders of their union—voted to declare their independence and establish a new, democratic union, with members in control.
In just one year, NUHW has:
Organized 3,357 new members, making NUHW California’s fastest-growing union.
Won 7 out of 9 elections against SEIU, with thousands of workers voting to reject SEIU’s top-down deals and take back control of their union. A majority of healthcare workers who’ve had elections have cast their votes for NUHW.
Given a voice to formerly non-union workers at four hospitals and nursing homes, including 900 caregivers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital who won the nation’s biggest hospital election of 2009.