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North Bay Business Journal editorial: a rebuke of SEIU

International Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern may have an open invitation to the White House, visiting there 22 times in the first six months of the Obama Administration, more than anyone else, according to visitor logs.
But health care workers are increasingly telling the SEIU to take a hike.
In Sonoma County, when 675 technicians and other workers at Memorial Hospital finally got the opportunity to vote on union representation, just 13 votes — that is not a typo — went to the SEIU.
In Los Angeles late last month, a rival union to the SEIU won overwhelmingly in three elections impacting 2,300 Kaiser Permanente workers.

NUHW members support Unite Here Disney workers in hunger strike and rally for safety

Click here for full-screen slideshow Since Wednesday, Disney hotel workers have been holding a water-only fast for justice outside the Grand Californian Hotel. NUHW nurses have been by their side every morning and night to monitor their health as they go without food to bring attention to the health and safety issues they face at […]

Solidarity Magazine: NUHW Landslide Election in S. California

Yesterday’s election carried particularly high stakes given that 50,000 additional Kaiser employees are currently petitioning for an election this summer. Last year, SEIU and Kaiser’s management intervened to stop an earlier election request by these same employees, prompting workers to launch their second petition-gathering effort.

Yesterday’s election was also significant in that it served as an important gauge of workers’ opinions one year after SEIU President Andy Stern imposed an unpopular trusteeship on January 27, 2009. Particularly stunning is the fact that RNs voted by a 95%-to-5% margin to join NUHW — a margin that is unheard of in sharply contested elections, especially where the losing union enjoys a large resource advantage.

Counterpunch: Healthcare Workers Savor a Victory

California’s healthcare workers and their new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) have won, in this winter of recession and war, a magnificent victory in a key series of electoral contests. Just last week, worker volunteers, health care workers managing their own campaigns, defeated the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by choosing NUHW in three representational elections. There are more than one hundred elections to come this year.

Labor board orders election for USC University Hospital workers to join NUHW

The National Labor Relations Board today ordered elections for nearly 600 workers at USC University Hospital to join NUHW, including 65 Sodexho employees who work at the hospital. Like the recent elections at Kaiser, both of these elections are votes that SEIU tried for months to stop. But the board rejected SEIU’s effort and protected […]