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SEIU Steward Council endorses NUHW

95% of SEIU’s workplace leaders switch sides in anticipation of statewide election Sept. 13

Santa Rosa, Calif.—Forty-eight SEIU union stewards at Kaiser Santa Rosa—virtually the entire SEIU Steward Council—announced yesterday that they endorse NUHW in the Sept.13 statewide election for nearly 44,000 Kaiser Permanente workers to switch from SEIU to NUHW.

“We are confident that the best future for our co-workers is with NUHW and not SEIU-UHW,” the 48 Kaiser employees wrote in a letter to their colleagues. “We look forward to voting for NUHW, so we can be part of a union where we make the decisions about our priorities for bargaining and who respresents us on the job and who leads our union.”

SEIU Steward Council endorses NUHW

On Monday, 48 SEIU shop stewards at Kaiser Santa Rosa announced their support for NUHW in the statewide Kaiser election on Sept. 13.

Read the letter they sent to their co-workers.

Download a leaflet to share this news with your co-workers.

KPFA Evening News on Kaiser election date

Yolanda Chavez, a senior licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Oakland for more than 20 years, explains the Sept. 13 Kaiser election to KPFA’s Evening News. (Allow a few moments for radio clip to download.)

SF Business Times: NLRB sets Sept. 13 as start for giant Kaiser Permanente union election

By Chris Rauber

The National Labor Relations Board has set Sept. 13 as the start date for a by-mail union representation election at Kaiser Permanente, according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers, one of the unions that will take part in the balloting.

Sadie Crabtree, an NUHW spokeswoman, said the agreement was facilitated and approved by Alan Reichard, the NLRB’s regional director for the area. She said it calls for ballots to be returned by Oct. 4, and counted in early October.

NLRB sets date for biggest union election in 70 years

44,000 Kaiser workers win the right to join NUHW and leave SEIU in a mail ballot election starting Sept. 13

SAN FRANCISCO—The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a government-protected mail ballot election beginning Sept. 13 for nearly 44,000 Kaiser Permanente workers to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers and kick out the incumbent union SEIU. For the thousands of Kaiser workers who began petitioning the labor board to join NUHW more than 17 months ago, victory is finally in sight.

“We’re voting NUHW to protect our raises and benefits, and get our union back under the control of the members,” said Yolanda Chavez, a senior licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Oakland for 20 years. “We need a stronger voice at work, and a union that will tell us what’s really going on.”