September 3rd, 2012
A new day for healthcare workers building NUHW
Tomorrow, a super-majority of workers at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, the flagship hospitals serving Oakland and Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area, will submit petitions for an election to leave SEIU and join NUHW. After suffering under SEIU’s ineffectual representation and concessionary bargaining for more than three years, nearly 1,200 healthcare workers at […]
August 31st, 2012
We’re standing up, and we’re leaving SEIU
We have great news. Today after SEIU-UHW organizers realized that the vast majority of us have rejected them and are ready to regain our voice in our workplace by joining NUHW, SEIU pulled out of our election at Mission Neighborhood Health Center. For three and a half years we suffered under SEIU-UHW with its poor […]
August 28th, 2012
At three more facilities, we’re leaving SEIU and joining NUHW
We are proud to announce that at three more San Francisco Bay Area facilities we are rejecting SEIU-UHW and moving with strong majorities to join healthcare workers in NUHW. 120 of us at Piedmont Gardens and Grand Lake Gardens, a nursing home and assisted living facility in Oakland, submitted our petitions for an election last […]
August 23rd, 2012
State Labor Board Cites SEIU for “Abusive Behavior” and “Physical Threats” in 2009 Fresno Homecare Election
FRESNO — The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) released an official complaint yesterday against the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) for intimidating voters in a 2009 union election in Fresno, California between SEIU-UHW and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). SEIU-UHW agents engaged in “menacing and abusive behavior,” […]
August 23rd, 2012
Government charges SEIU with intimidation and threats
Kicking in screen doors, shouting down union members, threatening assault, lying about wages and benefits, and destruction and removal of personal property. The State of California has officially charged SEIU with all these illegal acts, and more. Three years after Fresno homecare workers filed complaints that SEIU broke the law with lies, threats and intimidation […]