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June 25th, 2013

Government Imposes $4 Million Fine on Kaiser Permanente for Limiting Patients’ Access to Mental Health Care

$4 Million Fine is Second Largest in DMHC’s History; Action Results from Caregivers’ Complaint to the Agency  PRESS CONFERENCES TOMORROW, JUNE 26, IN LOS ANGELES AND OAKLAND: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 12 noon Where: Kaiser Oakland, corner of Howe St. and MacArthur Blvd., Oakland [map] Kaiser Los Angeles, in front of 4867 Sunset […]

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June 18th, 2013

Ready to Vote NUHW at San Rafael Healthcare and Wellness Center

At the San Rafael Healthcare and Wellness Center, we need a union we can trust. That’s why over 90% of us signed a petition for an election to get out of SEIU-UHW and join NUHW-CNA. We just filed our petition with the National Labor Relations Board yesterday. We’ve had enough of SEIU’s backroom dealmaking. We knew it was time to […]

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June 16th, 2013

Federal judge on Kaiser & SEIU: “a sweetheart cozy arrangement”

“A sweetheart cozy arrangement between the incumbent union boss and the company.” That’s how a federal judge described the relationship between Kaiser and SEIU as alleged in NUHW’s lawsuit against Kaiser. We couldn’t agree more. NUHW is suing Kaiser for paying workers to campaign for its company union, SEIU. In Judge William Alsup’s words, “Kaiser knowingly released lost-timers to SEIU-UHW to campaign […]

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June 13th, 2013

Federal Judge: NUHW Lawsuit Against Kaiser For “Sweetheart” Deal with SEIU May Proceed

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) against Kaiser Permanente for gross misconduct in two separate union elections may proceed. The suit alleges that Kaiser violated the law in two elections between NUHW and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in 2010 and 2013 […]

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June 5th, 2013

Kaiser Optical Workers Vote to Remain in NUHW-CNA, Reject SEIU

OAKLAND — Today, votes were counted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for Northern California optical workers at Kaiser Permanente in an election between the Service Employees International (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers – California Nurses Association (NUHW). By an overwhelming vote of 214 for NUHW to 103 for SEIU with 22 […]