Two thousand mental health clinicians have won; Kaiser Permanente has lost. The 10- week strike has ended in near total victory for…

Cal Winslow
Voices from the Picket LinesThe strike of 2000 Kaiser Permanente mental health care providers isnow in its seventh week. On Saturday, votes…
Thousands of Northern California Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians, members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), are on strike. Picketing…
Today, health care workers, including the NUHW’s mental health workers, are crying out for help. Some are organizing. Some are marching. Some are striking. More power to them
Our grievances may seem trifling to some – certainly, the corporations both private and public make them out to be just that. Yet, in microcosm, they reflect the existential crisis our earth confront
Logging has begun in Jackson State Demonstration Forest, 48,000 acres of state owned redwood forestland in Mendocino County in Northern California
The 1970s were a high-water mark for the US labor movement, with work stoppages, wildcat strikes, and sit-downs spreading up and down the country, involving workers in all industries
Never has it been more clear that our health system is broken
The strikers at Memorial report that while the chain lavishes its executives with six-figure bonuses, it demands that its “heroes” accept insufficient PPE, unsafe staffing levels, cuts to paid-time-off, including sick leave, and sharp increases in health care costs
The workers’ mood had shifted steadily to the left in the strike wave of the decade just ending, resulting in the growth of class consciousness and little interest in cooperation with employers