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Wall Street Journal: Ex-Leader Union Leader Is Charged With Fraud August 2, 2012 By Kris Maher, Wall Street Journal A former rising star within the Service Employees International Union has been charged with...
San Francisco Chronicle: Leaked financial documents threaten CPMC deal July 2, 2012 John Cote, SF Chronicle Mayor Ed Lee’s deal with California Pacific Medical Center on a $2.5 billion overhaul of their...
California’s Health Care Wars June 20, 2012 Counterpunch, Cal Winslow by CAL WINSLOW California’s healthcare workers’ wars continue, in the streets, in collective bargaining and in the...
Are Nurses Headed to War with SEIU? June 20, 2012 Working In These Times, Josh Eidelson, June 19, 2012 On June 15, a day after a Service Employees International Union...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: Kaiser Permanente, union announce labor contract May 15, 2012 Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer05/14/2012 11:17:14 AM PDT Kaiser Permanente and a coalition of unions have reached a tentative three-year labor...
Fresno Bee: Homecare union election battle on again May 4, 2012 Fresno Bee: Fresno County’s 10,000 homecare workers could face a rerun of a bitterly fought union election to decide their...
SF Bay Citizen: Lawmakers Try to Limit Hospital Executives’ Pay Packages May 3, 2012 Bay Citizen, May 2, 2012 California lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill that would require taxpayer-funded health care districts to...
S.F. hospital deal could raise health care costs April 18, 2012 John CotéMonday, April 16, 2012, SF Chronicle There is growing concern among some city leaders that a controversial deal Mayor...
Caregivers, Keck Hospital reach a tentative agreement April 4, 2012 By DANIEL ROTHBERG · Daily Trojan The Keck Hospital of USC and the National Union of Healthcare Workers reached a tentative agreement...
SF Chronicle: Activists call CPMC deal “unacceptable” and “glaringly deficient” March 28, 2012 John Cote, City Insider Well, that didn’t take long. The same day Mayor Ed Lee publicly announced he had struck...
The Californian: Editorial-Ailing SVMH board needs new direction March 19, 2012 Opinion, The Californian.com, Mar 16, 2012Following a stinging audit of how Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System’s board of directors conducts...
Talking Union: “With God on Our Side” by Adam Reich, a review March 19, 2012 By Carl Finamore, Mar. 16, 2012Talking Union “With God on Our Side” is a very catchy book title. It also...