June 20th, 2012
Are Nurses Headed to War with SEIU?
Working In These Times, Josh Eidelson, June 19, 2012
On June 15, a day after a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) official asked labor leaders not to oppose a change to nurse-patient ratios, California Nurses Association (CNA) Executive Director Rose Ann De Moro sent a blistering e-mail to her colleagues: “It is a war, of that I am certain, and it will not be pretty.”
Questioning whether SEIU – United Healthcare Workers West (UHW) President Dave Regan “has any principles,” De Moro called him “dogged, arrogant and an enormous embarrassment to the labor movement.” De Moro, who directs both CNA and its national affiliate, National Nurses United (NNU), charged, “the hospitals believe that they have found a way to weaken the nurses and their union with Regan in their power, and this will lead to some pretty nasty scenarios for the nurses, patients, and of course the union.” (The e-mails were provided to In These Times by a labor source.)
June 18th, 2012
The fight for Union Democracy continues
The Fight for Union Democracy Continues Last week in San Francisco, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments from attorneys for both SEIU and NUHW. In a courtroom packed with NUHW members and NUHW supporters still stuck in SEIU, the judges called into question the jury instructions in the […]
June 16th, 2012
SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan tries to undo safe staffing ratios
There’s just one word for it: Disgusting. Thursday night, on a statewide call of California union leaders, SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan announced his plans to help the hospital industry gut nurse-to-patient ratio laws that protect our patients and our licenses, and tried to get the rest of the labor movement to help him do it. […]
June 8th, 2012
SEIU cut a back room deal with Kaiser, I was there
My name is Sophia Sims. I’ve worked at Kaiser Panorama City since 2003, and before that at Woodland Hills since 1988. Until last week, I was a member of SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board. I also served on SEIU’s bargaining team for the contract we’re currently voting on. After reading the language in the Tentative Agreement on […]