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NUHW In the News

Beyond Chron: SEIU Battles NUHW, Labor Council and Workers in Santa Rosa October 7, 2009 by Randy Shaw SEIU’s no-holds-barred struggle with NUHW ratcheted up further last week as the powerful union was criticized by...
Green 960 Labor Report: Sonoma County providers call for investigation of SEIU’s rigged contract vote October 5, 2009 Dozens of homecare providers are calling on Sonoma County Supervisors to investigate SEIU’s reported strong-arm tactics in a recent contract...
Long Beach Press-Telegram: Los Alamitos Medical Center workers to unionize September 29, 2009 By John Canalis, Staff Writer LOS ALAMITOS—Maintenance workers at Los Alamitos Medical Center have agreed to organize, union representatives said...
North Bay Business Journal: County OKs contentious contract with SEIU in-home health care workers September 29, 2009 By D. Ashley Furness, Business Journal Staff Reporter SANTA ROSA—The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors renewed a contract impacting thousands...
Union Democracy Blog: New constitutions for UNITE HERE and for NUHW: Calling for democracy, Resisting authoritarianism September 28, 2009 By now there is something to be learned from the bitter internecine battles that embroil Andy Stern of the SEIU,...
Beyond Chron: SEIU “falsifies claims of NUHW’s alleged internal problems” September 21, 2009 by Randy Shaw After a bruising and expensive struggle in Fresno, SEIU now claims that rival NUHW is “coming apart...
KRCB-FM: Union vote at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital September 9, 2009 Employees at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital are one step closer to a union representation vote, something that could come within...
NY Daily News: SEIU members angry at money spent to fight California healthcare workers September 2, 2009 Above, members of Local 1199 protest during a 2007 contract dispute.By Meredith Kolodner New York’s lowest-paid unionized workers are up...
Beyond Chron: SF Labor Council Backs UNITE HERE Local 2, Rejects SEIU’s Threats August 31, 2009 by Randy Shaw In a further sign of SEIU’s growing estrangement from the labor movement, the San Francisco Labor Council...
Beyond Chron: San Francisco New Epicenter for Labor’s Civil War August 18, 2009 While progressives battle tea baggers, the insurance industry and the traditional media over universal health care, San Francisco is gripped...
Sal Rosselli: Governor’s charge on home care is the fraud (Sacramento Bee) July 22, 2009 Tonight, while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sits down in his Jacuzzi with a stogie, 440,000 frail seniors and people with disabilities...
ISR: U.S. Labor in the Crisis—Resistance or Retreat? July 21, 2009 THE ELECTION of Barack Obama last November seemed to promise a new era for organized labor. With Obama in the...