UNAC/UHCP

Safe Staffing Law Needs Sharper Teeth

UNAC/UHCP Nurses fought for nurse-to-patient ratios and our state’s landmark Safe Staffing Law, which have been shown to save lives. But these laws need tighter enforcement. During Nurses Week State Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Blake, RN, writing in the North County Times, called for passage of Senate Bill 1246 to save even more lives. Read it here.

A man has a heart attack and his wife calls 911. The ambulance, lights flashing, screams into the ER just in time for doctors to save his life.
Once he’s stabilized, he should be sent to intensive care, where he’ll receive close monitoring by a nurse who, by California law since 1975, can be assigned only two patients at a time.

Anyone who might ever be a patient in a California hospital can be thankful to our state’s nurses who fought for these first nurse-to-patient ratios and our landmark 2003 Safe Staffing law,

California Budget Woes May Imperil Patient Care

Governor Jerry Brown's revised budget is intended to close a nearly $16 billion deficit in the state of California. However, advocacy groups representing health care providers and patients, including UNAC/UHCP, are concerned about the impact of budget cuts on patients. An early proposed cut would have removed nurse inspector jobs from California, and cut fees used to enforce patient safety laws.

Safe Staffing Law Needs Sharper Teeth

UNAC/UHCP Nurses fought for nurse-to-patient ratios and our state's landmark Safe Staffing Law, which have been shown to save lives. But these laws need tighter enforcement. During Nurses Week State Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Blake, RN, writing in the North County Times, called for passage of Senate Bill 1246 to save even more lives. Read it here.

Online Bargaining Survey: Tell the Bargaining Team What You Want

We are in the process of electing our Chino Valley Medical Center’s RN Bargaining Team. Let’s help our team prepare for negotiations with CVMC management.

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey, so that we focus on the issues that are most important to all of us. After the survey is tabulated, information on the results will be shard and readily available.

We did it! Tentative Agreement Reached With Kaiser!

At 2:45AM Friday, May 11, UNAC/UHCP and the Coalition of Unions reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser covering 95,000 Kaiser employees across the country. Had it not been for the active support of thousands of our members, this would not have been possible. Read the basics here. Please stay tuned for more details. You Made It Happen! We Did It!

UNAC/UHCP Celebrates Nurses Week

After starting Nurses Week with a recap of how far we'd come in the year since last Nurses Week, thousands of UNAC/UHCP nurses employed by Kaiser got a special Nurses Week gift--a Tentative Agreement on a fantastic new contract. Details are forthcoming. We have a photo gallery of the UNAC/UHCP celebrations that took place all over Southern California. Read all about it!

National Bargaining Tentative Agreement Reached

At 2:45AM today, UNAC/UHCP and the Coalition of Unions reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser covering 95,000 Kaiser employees across the country. While we are not yet part of the national coalition, when we ratify our final contract, we will be covered by the National Agreement. This will give us increased bargaining power in years to come.

Without the active support of thousands of our members, the contact the coalition negotiated would not have been possible. During bargaining, over 1500 UNAC/UHCP members and retirees came out to support the bargaining team. Yesterday, an overflow room had to be opened during the day just for our members. Over 30 nurses camped out until the final agreement was signed early this morning. Throughout three months of bargaining, our members’ presence was described as a “sea of blue” by other partner unions.

It is this sort of unity that is required to… Read more

Chino RNs to Vote on Bargaining Team on May 23

Chino RNs will hold their first general membership meeting on May 23, where they will vote for their bargaining team. The Registered Nurses will begin bargaining with Chino Valley Medical Center on June 12. A recap of the road to bargaining can be found here.

West LA Nurses Week Celebration

West LA held their Nurses Week celebration on May 11, 2012. View a slideshow with pictures of the fun:

WE WON! Tentative Agreement Reached With Kaiser!

At 2:45AM Friday, May 11, UNAC/UHCP and the Coalition of Unions reached a tentative agreement with Kaiser covering 95,000 Kaiser employees across the country. Details to come.