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CounterPunch: How the SEIU won in California October 12, 2010 Big Money, the Big Lie and Fear By Cal Winslow The vote, 18,290 for SEIU, 11,364 for NUHW, was expected...
KQED’s California Money on Kaiser Permanente election September 23, 2010
KPFA Radio: Labor journalist Steve Early discusses the Kaiser election September 19, 2010 Labor journalist Steve Early discusses the historic Kaiser election with KPFA Radio’s Sunday Show. This 30-minute excerpt is from an...
Huffington Post: NUHW v SEIU, Kaiser workers prepare to make history September 9, 2010 By Shirley Nelson As Kaiser workers forming NUHW, we’ve built a website called Kaisercoworkers.org, to answer all of those questions...
Labor Notes: Decisive showdown which union will Kaiser workers choose? September 9, 2010 By Mark Brenner Alongside its take-no-prisoners organizing on the shop floor, SEIU is touting the two-year contract signed in June,...
Beyond Chron: SEIU Uses Fear, Lies, and Millions to Sway Kaiser Workers September 9, 2010 By Randy Shaw SEIU’s Kaiser campaign may be the most expensive political campaign (per voter) in United States history. The...
KPFK interview with historian Cal Winslow about NUHW August 21, 2010 KPFK’s Morning Show interviews historian Cal Winslow, author of Labor’s Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers Rebellion.
San Gabriel Valley Tribune: factious union dispute at Baldwin Park’s Kaiser Permanente August 15, 2010 By Thomas Himes A winner-take-all union campaign is leading to police calls and allegations of threats at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical...
Huffington Post: labor legend Dolores Huerta rips SEIU for worker intimidation August 11, 2010 By Ryan Grim A legend of the labor movement stepped into the turmoil engulfing organized labor in California on Tuesday,...
Wall Street Journal: California’s union showdown August 11, 2010 By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Next month in California, nearly 45,000 Kaiser Permanente health-care workers will choose their union. America hasn’t seen...
Huffington Post: an open letter to SEIU President Mary Kay Henry August 11, 2010 By Dolores Huerta Ms. Henry: When I first learned you would become SEIU’s new President, I was filled with hope...
KPFA Evening News on Kaiser election date August 2, 2010 Yolanda Chavez, a senior licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Oakland for more than 20 years, explains the Sept. 13 Kaiser...