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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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California nurses and caregivers applaud new meal and rest break law signed by Governor Newsom

S.B. 1334 guarantees enforceable breaks for public-sector and University of California workers who provide or support direct patient care in a hospital, clinic, or public health setting.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
September 30, 2022

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Nurses and health care workers call on Sutter Health to correct egregious payroll errors and provide remedies to all affected workers

Since July 1, when Sutter implemented its new payroll system, Workday, numerous errors continue, including missing pay and inaccurate pay rates.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
August 5, 2022

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Registered nurses and caregivers vote overwhelmingly to ratify new contracts with Palomar Health

Nurses and caregivers had been negotiating for fair contracts for more than 14 months and were prepared to strike over Palomar management’s bad-faith bargaining and numerous other egregious violations of labor law.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
June 27, 2022

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Nurses and caregivers reach tentative contracts with Palomar Health, strike planned for 6/23 averted

Nurses and ancillary caregivers had been negotiating for fair contracts for more than 14 months and were prepared to strike over Palomar management’s bad-faith bargaining and numerous other egregious violations of labor law.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
June 21, 2022

Verdugo Hills nurses picketing outside hospital with signs "Patients First"

Palomar Health nurses and caregivers give notice to hold one-day unfair labor practice strike June 23

Registered nurses and caregivers have been at the table negotiating a successor contract for 14 months, raising serious unsafe patient care and nursing practice concerns that negatively impact patients in the community.

California Nurses Association/Caregivers and Healthcare Employees Union
June 13, 2022