February 11th, 2013
Labor Board Sets Date of April 5 for Statewide Re-run Election for Kaiser Permanente Workers Organizing to Join NUHW-CNA
Emeryville, California — Today, the National Labor Relations Board announced a mail-in election date of April 5, 2013, for 45,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals throughout California who are organizing to leave SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers – California Nurses Association (NUHW-CNA). The election is a re-run […]
February 11th, 2013
Labor Board Sets Date of April 5 for Statewide Re-run Election for Kaiser Permanente Workers Organizing to Join NUHW-CNA
Emeryville, California — Today, the National Labor Relations Board announced a mail-in election date of April 5, 2013, for 45,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente hospitals throughout California who are organizing to leave SEIU United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers – California Nurses Association (NUHW-CNA). The election is a […]
February 7th, 2013
One picture that disproves a thousand SEIU lies
Please take a look at this picture of our NUHW-CNA Kaiser IBHS steward council. There’s more than forty of us, all NUHW members, holding up paychecks that show our PSP bonuses and a letter from Kaiser stating that we are guaranteed to receive our PSP again this year. (I’m on the left!) SEIU-UHW is lying […]
February 5th, 2013
LA Times: Ex-SEIU local exec convicted of stealing from low-income members
Paul Pringle and Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times
A onetime rising star in national labor circles who headed California’s biggest union local was convicted Monday on federal charges that he stole tens of thousands of dollars from his low-income members.
Tyrone Freeman, who represented about 190,000 homecare workers as a leader of the Service Employees International Union, was found guilty on 14 counts after a 10-day trial in Los Angeles.
Jurors deliberated two and a half days before returning their verdict. The trial followed a nearly four-year investigation triggered by a series of Times reports on Freeman’s financial practices.
“This was a case about abuse and betrayal,” U.S. Atty. André Birotte Jr. said in a statement after the verdict. “Freeman abused his position as leader of the SEIU, and he betrayed the hardworking people whose interests he was supposed to represent.”
Freeman, 43, faces a maximum of more than 180 years in prison when he returns to court for sentencing in April. His attorneys declined to comment.
January 31st, 2013
SEIU-UHW wrecked our Kaiser contract, here’s a guide
Every day we learn new ways that SEIU-UHW wrecked our contract. (Spanish) Now there’s a guide from NUHW-CNA that explains the fine print of what SEIU-UHW isn’t telling us about how the national agreement hurts Kaiser workers: Hidden on pages 60-61 (or Section 2 B.3): a retiree benefit cut Hidden in pages 11-112 (or Section […]