June 4th, 2013
This is what it means to stand up for workers
We joined NUHW to hold dishonest employers like Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital accountable. I’m proud to say that that’s exactly what we’re achieving. Last year, after we settled a contract with SVMH that included no takeaways and secured our defined benefit pension and employer-paid healthcare coverage, management did something so shady we could hardly believe […]
May 13th, 2013
Kaiser Optical Workers are Staying United in NUHW-CNA
Kaiser optical workers in Northern California have a message for SEIU: We’re staying united in NUHW-CNA. With barely a handful of signatures, SEIU officials filed a petition in March with the National Labor Relations Board for an election to contest NUHW-CNA’s representation of our bargaining unit. Within just a few days of SEIU’s filing, a supermajority […]
May 7th, 2013
Reuters: Battle at Kaiser Permanente is sign of vibrant unions in healthcare
By Amanda Becker (Reuters) – The Service Employees International Union fended off an upstart rival last week in a union-on-union battle over California healthcare workers, a symptom not of labor’s decline but of its growth in the health sector. The SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, in the largest private-sector election since Ford Motor Company was unionized […]
May 7th, 2013
36,000 Kaiser workers united
The last few days have been difficult. Thousands of us had high hopes and high expectations for last week’s election. We were confident it was finally our moment to escape management’s hand-picked union, SEIU-UHW, and put a stop to the cuts Kaiser is trying to force on us with the shameful complicity of SEIU officials. […]
May 7th, 2013
Bloomberg BNA: In Rerun Election Mirroring First One, SEIU-UHW Retains Kaiser Representation
By Joyce Cutler SAN FRANCISCO—California Kaiser Permanente workers voted to retain Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West in a rerun representation election for the largest health care bargaining unit in the West, consisting of 45,000 workers, according to a National Labor Relations Board tally of ballots released May 2. After two days of counting mail-in […]