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Quarterly Roundups

Read our latest quarterly roundups for updates from all our CHEU hospitals.


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Chuck Maltzahn, third from left, celebrating a victory with CHEU health care workers at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

In honor, solidarity, and grief, we pay tribute to Chuck Maltzahn, one of the founders of the Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union (CHEU) who passed away on January 31, 2023. Chuck worked as an RT for 40 years, retiring from Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in 2014, and spent his years post-retirement working closely with the CHEU executive board sharing his passion for health care worker justice. His love of the union ran deep, and his contributions to the union will forever be a part of his legacy and the history and legacy of CHEU. We will all miss him dearly.

Chuck is survived by his wife Carol, a son, and a daughter. Carol tells us that Chuck is reunited with their son in heaven, playing pool, and drinking bourbon. This sounds like Chuck!


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Why Caregiver and Healthcare Employees want CHEU

The Caregivers Union is an independent union formed in 2001 by hospital employees to win strong union representation, better benefits and improved conditions for employees and patients. Caregivers Union is an affiliate of the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC/CNA).


Workplace Violence Puts Everyone At Risk

Workplace Violence Regulations

The California Nurses Association (CNA) sponsored S.B. 1299 in response to workplace violence as a serious occupational hazard for registered nurses and other healthcare workers. S.B. 1299 became law in 2014 and directed Cal/OSHA to develop a comprehensive workplace violence prevention standard for hospitals and other healthcare settings. CNA members provided significant testimony during the rulemaking process, which enabled Cal/OSHA to develop comprehensive regulations that are a model for the nation.


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Redding nurses and health care workers to protest Shasta Regional Medical Center’s safe staffing law violations

Registered nurses and health care workers at Prime Healthcare’s Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in Redding, Calif., will picket on Tuesday, Oct. 24, to protest management’s proposed staffing scheme because it violates California’s safe staffing law and jeopardizes patient care.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
October 20, 2023

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Glendale Memorial Hospital health care workers ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and worker retention

Respiratory therapists, laboratory technicians, and many other health care workers at Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, Calif., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract, winning protections to improve patient safety and worker retention.

Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union/California Nurses Association
August 15, 2023

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Registered nurses and caregivers vote overwhelmingly to ratify new contracts at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland

Members of California Nurses Association and Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying new three-year contracts, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse retention

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
July 21, 2023

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USC Arcadia RNs, health care workers vote overwhelmingly to ratify new contracts

Registered nurses and health care workers at USC Arcadia Hospital in Arcadia, Calif., voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying new 3-year contracts, winning protections to improve patient safety and nurse and health care worker retention.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
June 23, 2023

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Children’s Hospital Oakland nurses and health care workers to hold one-day sympathy strike April 19 in solidarity with NUHW

Registered nurses and health care workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in Oakland, Calif., will hold a one-day sympathy strike in solidarity with the National Union of Healthcare Workers.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
April 7, 2023