Stories

Cultivating joy in work can lead to greater fullfilment and less stress. 

Regaining control: Shannon Cazinha (left), UBT development consultant, worked with management co-lead Linh Chau (center) and union co-lead Fairy Mills (right) to help their Northwest pharmacy team make improvements that gave members more control over their work.

Wendy Watson manages stress through vigorous exercise. 

Katie Richardson, MD, master juggler: pediatrician, director of Physician Experience for the Colorado Permanente Group, the mom of an 11-year-old daughter—and expert stressbuster.

Solving problems together as a team, such as this one in Georgia, can help keep stress and burnout at bay. 

The Woodland Hills Intensive Care Unit has built a speak up culture with interdisciplinary rounds on patients. As a result, the team has high morale, low turnover—and its patients suffer fewer hospital-acquired infections.

Southern California's Biohazards band, extending partnership tools into music-making. 

Joan Thayer, a lead cardiology nurse and member of UFCW Local 400, gets a group hug from colleagues at a recent UBT fair. 

Juan Piantino, MD, shares ideas with Debbie Newcomb, an electro-neurodiagnostic technologist and UFCW Local 555 member.

Workers and our organization thrive when everyone is free to speak. 

A 1943 shift change at the Richmond shipyards.