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Fresno homecare workers petition for 10,000 to join NUHW March 3, 2009 Connie Lara, Fresno homecare worker“We need a union run by healthcare workers in California, not union officials in Washington, D.C.....
Fresno homecare workers petition to join NUHW March 2, 2009 10,000 in-home healthcare workers to join the 80,000 Kaiser, hospital and nursing home workers uniting in National Union of Healthcare...
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...
Kaiser workers celebrate NUHW majority February 28, 2009 Healthcare workers gathered at Kaiser Oakland and Kaiser Bellflower in Los Angeles to announce that a majority had chosen NUHW...
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...
50,000 Kaiser workers to join NUHW February 27, 2009 “We’re joining NUHW because it’s the only way to protect the gains that Kaiser workers have made together over the...
50,000 Kaiser Permanente workers petition to join NUHW February 26, 2009 Caregivers at nation’s largest healthcare provider call for recognition of their union—and a majority of SEIU UHW-W members have now...
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...
In These Times: SEIU split widens February 25, 2009 The battle began roughly two years ago when UHW leaders criticized SEIU for negotiating an agreement with nursing home chains...
500 Orange County hospital workers petition to join NUHW February 24, 2009 “An absolute majority of workers at our hospital have signed petitions to choose NUHW as our union. We don’t want...

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