July 27th, 2011
NUHW Appealing to Labor Board to Find Kaiser Guilty of Unlawful Aid to SEIU
Kaiser and SEIU further colluding to force re-run under unlawful conditions Emeryville, California – The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) is filing exceptions to the July 14 ruling by National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Lana Parke that found the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) guilty of “coercive” conduct in last year’s […]
July 27th, 2011
Labor Board Throws Out Results of Another Kaiser Election
Judge finds SEIU guilty of election misconduct for second time in a week Washington, DC – For the second time in a week, an Administrative Law Judge for the National Labor Relations Board has recommended throwing out the results of a union election at Kaiser Permanente due to unlawful conduct by the Service Employees International […]
July 26th, 2011
For second time in two weeks, judge rules SEIU violated the law
Brothers and Sisters, For the second time in two weeks, Judge Lana Parke ruled that SEIU violated the law in the conduct of an election for workers at Kaiser Permanente. Last fall, nearly 400 Medical Social Workers in Northern California’s Kaiser MSW unit narrowly voted to remain in SEIU by a margin of only nine […]
July 25th, 2011
United in Michigan
Last week, NUHW President Sal Rosselli visited workers in Saginaw and Muskegon, Michigan, who are organizing to get out of SEIU and join NUHW. As in California, SEIU’s Michigan Healthcare local has been settling substandard contracts and failing to represent its members at the worksite. Healthcare workers in Michigan have had enough, and are committed to […]
July 23rd, 2011
Union battle over Kaiser Permanente hospital system is David vs. Goliath affair
New York Daily News: Friday, July 22, 2011 By Juan Gonzalez A leadership split in the country’s most powerful labor union led to a bitter battle in California last fall over who would represent 43,000 workers in the state’s vast Kaiser Permanente hospital system. The Kaiser contest was the biggest union representation election in the U.S. in more […]