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Union battle over Kaiser Permanente hospital system is David vs. Goliath affair July 23, 2011 New York Daily News: Friday, July 22, 2011 By Juan Gonzalez A leadership split in the country’s most powerful labor...
Judge rules against SEIU in California fight July 22, 2011 Washington Post: By Alec MacGillis A judge ruled this week that the Service Employees International Union improperly coerced workers caught...
Kaiser Election Results KOed: Judge Orders Rematch Between SEIU and NUHW July 22, 2011 Working In These Times: By Steve Early When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) defeated the National Union of Healthcare...
NLRB Judge Throws Out Kaiser Elections July 21, 2011 Beyond Chron: by Cal Winslow‚ Jul. 20‚ 2011 The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just thrown out the results...
San Francisco Chronicle: Kaiser raising rates for 300,000 subscribers June 29, 2011 San Francisco Chronicle: By Victoria Colliver Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Kaiser Permanente plans to raise rates more than 10 percent...
Labor Notes: California Strike Highlights Hospitals’ Skewed Priorities June 24, 2011 Labor Notes: By Mark Brenner Hundreds of workers at a central California hospital return to work today, after a two-day...
The Californian: SVMH executives given large raises June 24, 2011 The Californian: At the same time it laid off hundreds of rank and file employees, the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare...
Monterey County Herald: Striking union files charge against SVMH June 23, 2011 Monterey County Herald: Hospital officials insist there is no lockout By JIM JOHNSON Herald Staff Writer Arguing that more than 100...
KION: Protesters Move Their Picket from Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital to Board Member’s Home June 23, 2011 KION:   By Matt de Nesnera SALINAS, Calif. — The state Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) has issued a complaint...
KION: SVMH Union Employees Couldn’t Go Back To Work After Strike June 23, 2011
The Californian: SVMH board member calls for mediator to settle labor dispute June 23, 2011 The Californian: As Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System officials moved to block striking hospital workers from returning to work on Wednesday,...
The Californian: Opinion – Nathan Olivas, Sam Downing and the Pyramids of Giza June 22, 2011 Read the opinion piece in The Californian. In his editorial in the June 7 edition of The Salinas Californian, Nathan...