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Big Profits and More Concessions October 26, 2012 By Carl Finamore Posted at Beyond Chron and Counterpunch. California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) has four medical campuses in San Francisco and...
Daily Cal: Alta Bates medical workers looking to switch labor unions September 7, 2012 Pooja Mhatre, Berkeley Daily Cal Workers at the Alta Bates Medical Summit Center in Berkeley submitted a petition Tuesday requesting...
LA Times: Hospital leader under fire for paying daughter to drive him August 23, 2012 Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2012 On his receipts, the acting director of a Central Coast public hospital district appeared...
The New Republic: The Inscrutable Andy Stern, In His Own Defense August 7, 2012 By Alec MacGillis, TNR At a time when unions hold an ever-diminishing role in American life, Andy Stern commanded a...
Working In These Times: Andy Stern Responds to Critics of His Post-SEIU Career August 3, 2012 By Mike Elk, Working In These Times Former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern has long faced criticism...
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...