Day five. Our fifth and final day on the ULP strike line at Marina del Rey Hospital was marked by the support of faith leaders, community allies and the familiar faces of many who have walked the line each…
SEIU California For Immediate Release October 10, 2022 SEIU California leaders with membership in the Los Angeles area have convened to discuss the remarks that were made public yesterday involving a conversation among City Council President Nury Martinez, Councilmember Kevin de León, Councilmember Gil Cedillo, and Los Angeles…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 3, 2022 LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Long Beach City Council has voted 9-0 in favor of a $25 minimum wage for healthcare workers in the city. The new minimum wage would cover all private sector healthcare workers in hospitals, integrated health systems, and dialysis clinics…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 17, 2021 SAN JOSE, Calif. – Tens of thousands of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) members will be joined by OPEIU Local 29, IFPTE Local 20 in a sympathy strike to demand that Kaiser stop its economic bullying and agree to a fair contract with the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 15, 2021 OAKLAND, Calif. – Healthcare workers representing SEIU-UHW’s 36,000 Kaiser Permanente members in Northern California have voted to authorize a one-day sympathy strike in solidarity with Kaiser engineers from Local 39 who have been on strike for two months. The sympathy strike will start on…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2021 MODESTO, Calif. – Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers and allies will start picketing across Northern California on Monday, Oct. 18 to protest short-staffing, threats to patient care, and in solidarity with engineers from Local 39 who are on strike at Kaiser. SEIU-UHW and other…
For Immediate Release: August 11, 2021 Contact: Renée Saldaña [email protected] LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Long Beach City Council has unanimously passed a resolution condemning Dignity Health’s inhumane treatment of its security officers and calling on the corporate healthcare giant to “immediately respect the will of these workers by recognizing them…
Now that you’ve voted for our new SEIU-UHW contract, let’s talk about the bigger picture. The COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for months, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to end anytime soon. We’re exhausted, burned out, and worried about our health and what we’re bringing home to…
[Sept. 16, 2019] OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 80,000 Kaiser Permanente workers in six states and the District of Columbia will begin a nationwide, seven-day unfair labor practices strike Oct. 14. The strike will be the largest since the Teamsters strike against United Parcel Service more than two decades ago.
[Sept. 11, 2019] DENVER – In the last three weeks, over 3,000 Kaiser Permanente Colorado workers – members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 – turned out in large numbers to overwhelmingly authorize a strike in early October that would be the largest in the United States…