Mission Neighborhood Caregivers Vote to Leave SEIU and Join NUHW as Alta Bates Summit Workers Prepare to Follow
SAN FRANCISCO — Today, in a vote of 43 to 2, 49 workers at Mission Neighborhood Health Center (MNHC) in San Francisco became the newest members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Before today, MNHC caregivers were members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Unhappy with SEIU’s poor representation and employer-friendly approach to […]
A new day for healthcare workers building NUHW
Tomorrow, a super-majority of workers at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, the flagship hospitals serving Oakland and Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area, will submit petitions for an election to leave SEIU and join NUHW. After suffering under SEIU’s ineffectual representation and concessionary bargaining for more than three years, nearly 1,200 healthcare workers at […]
We’re standing up, and we’re leaving SEIU
We have great news. Today after SEIU-UHW organizers realized that the vast majority of us have rejected them and are ready to regain our voice in our workplace by joining NUHW, SEIU pulled out of our election at Mission Neighborhood Health Center. For three and a half years we suffered under SEIU-UHW with its poor […]
At three more facilities, we’re leaving SEIU and joining NUHW
We are proud to announce that at three more San Francisco Bay Area facilities we are rejecting SEIU-UHW and moving with strong majorities to join healthcare workers in NUHW. 120 of us at Piedmont Gardens and Grand Lake Gardens, a nursing home and assisted living facility in Oakland, submitted our petitions for an election last […]
State Labor Board Cites SEIU for “Abusive Behavior” and “Physical Threats” in 2009 Fresno Homecare Election
FRESNO — The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) released an official complaint yesterday against the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) for intimidating voters in a 2009 union election in Fresno, California between SEIU-UHW and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). SEIU-UHW agents engaged in “menacing and abusive behavior,” […]