May 3rd, 2012
SF Bay Citizen: Lawmakers Try to Limit Hospital Executives’ Pay Packages
California lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that would require taxpayer-funded health care districts to restrict lavish payouts to executives. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Luis A. Alejo, a Democrat from Salinas, would prohibit health care districts from giving financial perks to retiring administrators that are not available to other employees. The hospitals could no longer make inflated lump-sum payments exclusively to executives based on their performance or years of service, for example.
“This bill creates fair pension systems within health care districts and would prevent health care districts from providing unfair pay packages to their top executives,” Alejo said at the hearing on Wednesday.
The legislation was approved by the A
May 3rd, 2012
NUHW members support bill holding hospital executives accountable
George Ross, LVN, SVMH 25 yearsNUHW is taking action in support of a bill in the California Legislature sponsored by Assemblymember Luis Alejo of Salinas that would limit hospitals’ ability to violate the public trust with excessive pay packages for executives. Assemblymember Alejo drafted the bill after NUHW members exposed gross financial mismanagement and exorbitant […]
May 3rd, 2012
Fresno Homecare Workers Speak Out on SEIU Election Misconduct
In lead up to major 2012 election at Kaiser, state agency rules that SEIU may have cheated in 2009 election for 10,000 Fresno workers FRESNO – The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which was recently decertified by one group of Fresno County workers and is currently facing decertification efforts by two other groups, may have cheated […]
April 30th, 2012
SEIU gives up workers’ pension and health benefits at Daughters of Charity
My name is Suad Husary and I work at Seton Medical Center, a Daughters of Charity hospital in Daly City, just outside of San Francisco. Late Saturday night, SEIU-UHW agreed to major takeaways with Daughters of Charity that will eliminate our defined benefit pension, eliminate our fully employer-paid PPO plan, increase our out-of-pocket healthcare costs […]
April 26th, 2012
The only thing guaranteed about SEIU’s IT deal is…a weak contract
Once again, SEIU is trying to fool us into believing their giveaways to Kaiser are actually victories for workers.
SEIU’s latest lie is that they reached a tentative agreement for a contract with no takeaways for IT workers. After weeks of hiding it, SEIU finally disclosed the actual tentative agreement. (With helpful annotations in red from NUHW.)
And here’s the truth: the IT agreement is full of concessions and is just another SEIU sell-out to Kaiser. Here are some facts every Kaiser worker should know about SEIU’s IT deal: