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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...
Fresno homecare workers march on SEIU UHW-W March 13, 2009 On March 12, Fresno homecare workers rallied and marched on the SEIU UHW-W office to protest SEIU’s retaliation and interference...
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...
Video: Fresno homecare workers announce petition to join NUHW March 12, 2009 On March 2, homecare workers filed petitions for 10,000 to leave SEIU and join NUHW.
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....
Caregivers picket O’Connor Hospital for arresting union reps and shutting down democratic vote March 10, 2009 San Jose, Calif.—Healthcare workers picketed outside O’Connor Hospital today to protest the actions of hospital management, who suspended an Emergency...
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...
Video: Kaiser workers celebrate majority and say why they chose NUHW March 4, 2009 Healthcare workers held press conferences in Los Angeles and Oakland to announce that a majority of Kaiser’s 50,000 union members...
Statement on trustees’ desperate attempt to distract attention from thousands fleeing SEIU March 4, 2009 Oakland, Calif.—The following statement was issued today by the National Union of Healthcare Workers: “In less than five weeks, 91,000...
SEIU Local 1021 members at Alameda County Medical Center petition to join NUHW March 3, 2009 More than 300 caregivers at Alameda County Medical Center—many of whom were forced out of SEIU UHW-W in 2006 by...
NUHW statement on the death of former Assemblywoman Nell Soto of Pomona March 3, 2009 Oakland, Calif.—The National Union of Healthcare Workers issued the following statement today from Founding Executive Board Member Sal Rosselli: “The...

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