May 17th, 2012
Workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland Vote to Bolt SEIU and Join NUHW
OAKLAND – Three years after petitioning the National Labor Relations Board for an election to leave the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), about 450 employees of Children’s Hospital Oakland (CHO) finally belong to the union of their choice. In a decisive vote yesterday of 183 for […]
May 17th, 2012
We won at Children’s Hospital Oakland
Yesterday we won a great victory at Children’s Hospital Oakland. I am so proud to report that we won our re-run election over SEIU by a margin of 183 votes for NUHW to 135 votes for SEIU. SEIU’s organizers had told NUHW supporters that they were going to “make us cry” at the ballot count. […]
May 17th, 2012
NUHW forces SEIU to reveal their secret deal at Kaiser
Yesterday, NUHW forced SEIU to reveal their secret deal with Kaiser. SEIU wanted to prevent workers from seeing the details of their agreement with Kaiser Permanente before healthcare workers were forced to vote on it. SEIU tried to do what they’ve done to workers at Daughters of Charity and Dignity/Catholic Healthcare West and get workers […]
May 16th, 2012
SEIU’s bogus ratification votes
Tomorrow, Kaiser workers will begin to vote on SEIU’s disastrous deal with its “partner,” Kaiser Permanente. When Kaiser workers cast their ballots to vote NO to this sell-out agreement, they should know one thing: SEIU’s contract ratification process is a sham. At Daughters of Charity hospitals, we know firsthand about SEIU’s ratification misconduct. Yesterday, along […]