January 21st, 2011
SEIU Collusion with Sutter Denies Workers Their Fair Choice of Unions at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
Workers pledge to fight for fair re-run of election OAKLAND – Ballot counting ended today for 1,100 employees at three campuses of Sutter-owned Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in a representation election between a trusteed local of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). The National Labor Relations […]
January 19th, 2011
Federal Government Announces Hearing on Possible Illegal Collusion Between SEIU and Kaiser
NLRB takes first step toward ordering re-run of nation’s largest private sector election in 70 years OAKLAND – Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a report that could result in the tossing out of the largest private sector union election in 70 years due to misconduct by both Kaiser Permanente and the […]
January 18th, 2011
In the News: Kaiser must restore raises, training for health care workers
From American Medical News: A judge and the NLRB order the California-based plan to bargain in good faith with the National Union of Healthcare Workers. By VICTORIA STAGG ELLIOTT, amednews staff. Posted Jan. 18, 2011. Kaiser Permanente affiliates must restore annual raises, tuition reimbursement and a steward training program for employees who elected to switch unions in early […]
January 17th, 2011
Kaiser Caregivers in Southern California Receive Their Raises
Over the last few days, 2,300 Kaiser workers in Southern California who voted to join NUHW have been receiving paychecks reflecting the 2% raises promised them under their prior contract. “We voted NUHW and we didn’t lose anything,” said Irma Dufelmeier, a 24-year RN at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center. “We kept our raises, our […]
January 15th, 2011
Dr. King and the Dignity of Labor
On April 3rd, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to support striking sanitation workers. In his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, he implored the workers to stay resolute in their struggle. “We are saying that we are determined to be men,” King proclaimed. “We are determined to be people. We […]