{"id":8735,"date":"2009-05-01T23:57:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T23:57:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-02T03:33:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:33:57","slug":"nuhw-founding-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/01\/nuhw-founding-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"NUHW: Founding Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, over 700 workers met at Everett Middle School in San Francisco to hold the official founding convention of their union, NUHW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the convention looked like:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the Full Convention Report<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d also like to bring your attention to an online program that was part of the convention and some recent NUHW actions below…<\/p>\n

Hundreds of workers who could not attend our founding convention shared their support for NUHW by sending comments through our web site, and we posted all of their comments on a wall for everyone to read at our Founding Convention.<\/p>\n

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You can read a selection of these comments at the NUHW Member Blog<\/a> at our website.<\/p>\n

Inspired by our convention and recognizing important challenges ahead, NUHW activists are on the move.<\/p>\n

Here’s NUHW activists rallying to protest layoffs and employer collusion with SEIU at CPMC<\/a> and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center<\/a> in the last week:<\/p>\n

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And in Fresno, 100+ homecare workers<\/a> packed a meeting to protest wage and benefits cuts and SEIU’s failure to adequately represent them.<\/p>\n

Fresno, Calif.-Over a hundred Fresno homecare providers packed the Fresno County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to oppose an agenda item that would reduce their wages and benefits to $9.50 an hour. But they weren’t just there to protest the wage cuts-they also pointed to the repeated failure of their union, SEIU, to support them in stopping the cuts.<\/p>\n

“SEIU just failed to stop a different set of cuts last week,” said Flo Furlow, a homecare worker. “Now the county wants to cut our wages even more, and this time SEIU isn’t even going to take it to arbitration. How many times can we let this happen?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With elections upcoming in Fresno County and ongoing at Doctor’s Medical Center San Pablo, NUHW activists are reaching out to progressive Californians and asking for your support.<\/p>\n

You can be a part of the member-led, democratic movement represented by NUHW by joining us SIGNING UP<\/b><\/a> at our website or by joining our growing FACEBOOK SOLIDARITY PAGE<\/b><\/a> for the latest updates.<\/p>\n

{Paul Delehanty works for the National Union of Healthcare Workers.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, over 700 workers met at Everett Middle School in San Francisco to hold the official founding convention of their union, NUHW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the convention looked like:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the Full Convention Report<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d also like to bring your attention to an online program that was part of the convention and some recent NUHW actions below…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[6781,1795],"class_list":["post-8735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-6781","tag-1795"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2gT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}