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Sonoma Co. caregivers ask Board to investigate secret union contract

Homecare providers spoke out in front of the Sonoma County Administration Building Tuesday morning, asking County Supervisors for help in finding out details of a secret union agreement by SEIU-UHW that could reduce their wages and benefits over the next two years.

Providers will never be shown the actual agreement between SEIU-UHW and the County, and will only be allowed to vote after sitting through a sales pitch by union officials. The agreement would reportedly allow the County to slash pay by $2 an hour just one year after the contract is ratified, and take away workers’ Kaiser health plan and replace it with a cheaper insurance scheme that healthcare advocates have called on the Attorney General to investigate

Click the link below to read more and hear from other Sonoma County homecare providers.

Beyond Chron: SEIU “falsifies claims of NUHW’s alleged internal problems”

by Randy Shaw

After a bruising and expensive struggle in Fresno, SEIU now claims that rival NUHW is “coming apart at the seams.” According to SEIU, NUHW’s failures have “sparked intense infighting and finger-pointing,” and “the focus has now turned to the question of whether the organization can survive. ” Is this wishful thinking, or an accurate assessment? Since forming last January, NUHW has been frustrated in its efforts to win members by SEIU filing NLRB petitions preventing the holding of decertification elections. The lack of members has left NUHW without funding to maintain staff, which has required some of its organizers to seek other jobs. But SEIU exaggerates and even falsifies claims of NUHW’s alleged internal problems, and while there is credence to its charges that NUHW has not met expectations to date, its latest salvos appear geared to break the spirits of NUHW staff and supporters. Here’s what’s really going on.

NLRB removes SEIU blocking charge and begins scheduling elections to join NUHW

Healthcare workers protest NLRBSEIU has relied on the same tactics as the worst anti-union employers to delay workers’ right to vote, including filing hundreds of frivolous charges with the NLRB to create a logjam. But after hundreds of workers protested in front of NLRB offices in Los Angeles and Oakland, the NLRB has finally begun […]

NLRB decides in favor of NUHW supporters

NUHW supporters picket OlympiaThe National Labor Relations Board has issued three decisions in favor of NUHW supporters: The NLRB charged Olympia Medical Center with violating the rights of union stewards by disciplining them for supporting NUHW. Records of the discipline will be removed from the workers’ files, and Olympia must promise not to threaten NUHW […]

San Francisco homecare providers speak out for NUHW

Click below for four more homecare leaders in San Francisco.