May 7th, 2013
Bloomberg BNA: In Rerun Election Mirroring First One, SEIU-UHW Retains Kaiser Representation
By Joyce Cutler SAN FRANCISCO—California Kaiser Permanente workers voted to retain Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West in a rerun representation election for the largest health care bargaining unit in the West, consisting of 45,000 workers, according to a National Labor Relations Board tally of ballots released May 2. After two days of counting mail-in […]
May 3rd, 2013
Tonight’s election results
You may have heard by now that the results of the Kaiser election did not go the way we had hoped. The NLRB’s final vote count was 13,002 for NUHW-CNA to 18,894 for SEIU-UHW, with 334 voting for neither union. There’s a few things I would like to say about this election. First of all, […]
May 3rd, 2013
Through Fear and Collusion, SEIU-UHW Holds on to Kaiser Bargaining Unit
But majority of the total number of Kaiser workers in California support NUHW-CNA OAKLAND — For months, the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers (SEIU-UHW) has spent millions of dollars on a negative campaign designed to exploit Kaiser Permanente workers’ anxieties in a difficult economic climate, asserting repeatedly and without foundation that workers who choose to […]
May 2nd, 2013
Update on the vote count in Oakland
A lot of people are asking what happened today at the Kaiser vote count at the National Labor Relations Board office in Oakland. Here’s a quick video to fill you in on the details: Today, NLRB officials cleared ballots, making sure each signed return envelope matches up properly to the list of eligible voters. […]
May 1st, 2013
NUHW-CNA Spirit
Kaiser Antioch Optical Sales Receptionist Angela Glasper describes the day so far.