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Los Angeles Times: National Union of Healthcare Workers gets its first members March 18, 2009 A new Oakland-based union — the product of a brutal fight between the elected leaders of healthcare workers in Northern...
Sacramento Business Journal: 350 nursing home workers choose NUHW over SEIU March 18, 2009 More than 350 workers at three Sacramento-area nursing homes and one in Pacifica have chosen the National Union of Healthcare...
Hartford Courant: ‘Free choice’ must mean switching unions, too March 16, 2009 Although the loss of the secret ballot may expose workers to various forms of intimidation, there is something attractive about...
KPFK interview with John Borsos and Danielle Estrada March 12, 2009 Maria Armoudian on KPFK’s “Insighters” interviews John Borsos of NUHW’s founding executive board and Danielle Estrada, a healthcare worker at...
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center: Fresno Homecare Workers, Consumers, and Community Members March against SEIU Harassment March 12, 2009 About 60 homecare workers and their allies rallied in front of the Service Employees International Union-UHW office in Fresno today....
Counterpunch: Stern’s SEIU vs. breakaway healthcare workers March 5, 2009 United Healthcare Workers-West was the kind of union we need in California – more, it was in historian Nelson Lichtenstein’s...
Las Vegas Sun: Unions clash as card check lies in wait March 4, 2009 Just last week, tens of thousands of California health care workers signed a petition to decertify the Service Employees International...
Association for Union Democracy: From now on, SEIU = Stern Employees International Union March 1, 2009 Andy Stern, SEIU international president, has trusteed the 150,000 local, United Healthcare Workers-West. He has removed its elected officers, stripped...
Los Angeles Times: Kaiser’s California workers move to switch unions February 27, 2009 Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente’s California workers have signed a petition to leave United Healthcare Workers West and join...
New Haven Independent: West Coast visitors discuss health care union war February 27, 2009 Even as stars have aligned in Washington to pass health care reform, a civil war has broken out in the...
San Francisco Sentinel: 50,000 Kaiser Permanente caregivers file to leave SEIU, join National Union of Healthcare Workers February 27, 2009 An absolute majority of the 50,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente’s California facilities have filed petitions to oust SEIU and...
San Francisco Business Times: Kaiser Permanente workers seek to quit SEIU February 26, 2009 Kaiser workers have signed petitions to dump its union, SEIU, and join a new union after the national leadership of...