September 5th, 2012
Workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco vote to join NUHW
49 workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco voted 43-2 to join NUHW today. The workers, who had been members of SEIU-UHW, overwhelmingly voted to join NUHW over “No Union.” Unhappy with SEIU’s poor representation and employer-friendly approach to bargaining, workers demonstrated such clear majority support for NUHW that SEIU disclaimed interest in […]
September 5th, 2012
Mission Neighborhood Caregivers Vote to Leave SEIU and Join NUHW as Alta Bates Summit Workers Prepare to Follow
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, in a vote of 43 to 2, 49 workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center (MNHC) in San Francisco became the newest members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Before today, MNHC caregivers were members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Unhappy with SEIU’s poor representation and employer-friendly approach to […]
September 3rd, 2012
A new day for healthcare workers building NUHW
Tomorrow, a super-majority of workers at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, the flagship hospitals serving Oakland and Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area, will submit petitions for an election to leave SEIU and join NUHW. After suffering under SEIU’s ineffectual representation and concessionary bargaining for more than three years, nearly 1,200 healthcare workers at […]
August 31st, 2012
We’re standing up, and we’re leaving SEIU
We have great news. Today after SEIU-UHW organizers realized that the vast majority of us have rejected them and are ready to regain our voice in our workplace by joining NUHW, SEIU pulled out of our election at Mission Neighborhood Health Center. For three and a half years we suffered under SEIU-UHW with its poor […]
August 28th, 2012
At three more facilities, we’re leaving SEIU and joining NUHW
We are proud to announce that at three more San Francisco Bay Area facilities we are rejecting SEIU-UHW and moving with strong majorities to join healthcare workers in NUHW. 120 of us at Piedmont Gardens and Grand Lake Gardens, a nursing home and assisted living facility in Oakland, submitted our petitions for an election last […]