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INGLEWOOD, CA - Five hundred healthcare workers from Centinela Hospital have signed cards to the former officials of their union with a plain message: Get out of our hospital and stop putting patient care, our future and our union at risk.
Workers standing up for safe working conditions
OAKLAND, CA - Nurses, physician's assistants, dental assistants and others who provide medical care at Alameda County's two correctional facilities, are holding a one-day unfair labor practices strike over concerns about staffing levels and workplace safety at the facilities. The workers will return to work at 6 a.m. on Wed., March 10.
Workers standing up for safe working conditions get support from Fellow SEIU Members in Oregon and Tennessee
OAKLAND, CA - Nurses, physician's assistants, dental assistants and others who provide medical care at Alameda County's two correctional facilities are continuing to voice concerns about staffing levels and workplace safety at the facilities. The healthcare workers are facing threats and intimidation from Prison Health Services as they stand up for safe conditions and quality jobs at the County jails. Prison Health Services is a multi-million dollar Tennessee-based corporation that contracts with Alameda County to provide medical services at a taxpayer cost of on average $25 million a year.
"We can't let our hospital collapse," nurse tells State Senate Health Committee
Sacramento, CA - Prime Healthcare Services came under fire at a Senate Health Committee hearing today for its ongoing failure to comply with state seismic safety requirements. Testimony highlighted the corporation's apparent unwillingness to retrofit hospitals throughout California and focused on its neglect of Centinela Hospital in Inglewood.
Healthcare Workers at Glenn Dyer Detention Facility and Santa Rita Jail File Federal Charges Against Prison Health Services
OAKLAND, CA - Citing unlawful threats and intimidation against healthcare workers at the Glenn Dyer Detention Facility and the Santa Rita Jail, members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW) have filed an unfair labor practices (ULP) charge against Prison Health Services (PHS), the Tennessee based corporation in charge of administering healthcare at the two Alameda County facilities.
Nurses, Others Pushed to Wall by Prison Health Services Takeaways, Demand Accountability to Taxpayers
OAKLAND, CA - Healthcare workers at Glenn Dyer Detention Facility and Santa Rita Jail, employees of Prison Health Services (PHS), have authorized an unfair labor practice strike to protest management's refusal to negotiate in good faith over conditions that will keep the correctional facilities safe and well-staffed.
The workers, members of the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) voted 94 percent to strike and then took their concerns to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors' meeting today. Prison Health Services contracts with Alameda County for the medical care provides at the two facilities.
At an informational picket on February 9th SEIU-UHW members sent a strong message to PHS management that we will fight their proposal to increase our healthcare costs. And we will stand strong for fair wage increases.
DUBLIN, CA -Employees of Prison Health Services will picket on Tuesday, February 9 from 2 - 4:30 p.m. The workers provide health care at two East Bay correctional facilities: Glenn Dyer Detention Facility in Oakland and the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. The informational picket will raise awareness of their efforts to negotiate a new contract. The contract is critical to keeping the experienced correctional nurses--people who know how to do a difficult job under challenging and dangerous circumstances.
HUNTINGTON PARK, CA - Community leaders, including State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), Carson City Mayor Jim Dear, Inglewood City Councilman Ralph Franklin, and Sergio Calderon, Division 4 Director of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, and healthcare workers picketed Community and Mission Hospital of Huntington Park to urge the hospital to make the necessary changes to provide quality patient care to better serve the community. Also at the picket were representatives of State Senator Ron S. Calderon (D- Montebello) and Assemblyman Isadore Hall (D-Compton).
The Huntington Park Hospital provides healthcare services in one of L.A.'s most densely populated areas. Unfortunately, management at Community and Mission is refusing to listen to frontline caregivers' requests to improve hospital safety, to set safer staffing levels, and to maintain the current workforce to preserve the hospital's quality patient care.
More than 100 SEIU-UHW members at Centinela Hospital were joined by community leaders, including Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt F. Dorn and Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE LA) in a picket outside the Inglewood facility to hold the hospital's owners accountable for improving care and working conditions in the hospital.
Rally for Quality Patient Care & Reputation of Centinela Hospital
Inglewood, CA - Community leaders rallied today to ensure Centinela Hospital Medical Center continues to be a provider of cutting-edge, quality care.
Centinela was once regarded as one of the area's leading hospitals - serving as the official hospital of the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and of the 1984 Olympic Games. Workers and community leaders assert that the hospital's newest owner, Prime Health Systems, needs to put patients first as it makes changes.
Members Receive Long-awaited Retro Pay, Look Ahead to Bargaining
For three years, members at Centinela Hospital have battled for the retro pay guaranteed in our contract. We stood up to management's tactics and refused to be tricked into trading away our rights and protections in exchange for the money we were owed. When management tried to stall and keep us from our raises, we pushed back and delivered our notice to picket to let the hospital and our community know how Prime's Centinela was short-changing caregivers.
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