| Full name | SEIU United Healthcare Workers West |
|---|---|
| Founded | In the 1930s |
| Members | 150,000 |
| Country | United States |
| Head union | SEIU |
| Key people | Dave Regan, President; Stan Lyles, Vice-President; |
| Office location | Oakland, California |
| Website | www.seiu-uhw.org |
The SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU UHW) is a statewide local union of the Service Employees International Union in California in the United States. It has a membership of 150,000.
UHW was created by the merger of two SEIU local unions: Local 250 in Northern California and Local 399 in Southern California. The larger of those two locals, Local 250, began when workers at San Francisco General Hospital, who were inspired by the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, organized a union at their hospital in 1934.
UHW is headquartered in Oakland, California and has offices statewide. UHW is an industrial union representing all classifications of health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health agencies as well as homecare workers. UHW is one of the fastest growing unions in the nation and is very diverse, with its members speaking more than 50 languages.
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On June 23, 2010 SEIU-UHW members at Kaiser Permanente ratified a contract covering 46,000 California workers guaranteeing a 3% annual wage increases. [1] Other recent victories of the union include winning a six-week strike against Sutter Health in San Francisco; the conclusion of successful negotiations with Catholic Healthcare West; organizing victories at O'Connor Woods Retirement Community in Stockton, California, St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles; and of IT workers at Kaiser; and a statewide contract victory with HCA, the nation's largest hospital company. Most of the union's current organizing work is being carried out in Southern California.