July 25th, 2011
United in Michigan
Last week, NUHW President Sal Rosselli visited workers in Saginaw and Muskegon, Michigan, who are organizing to get out of SEIU and join NUHW. As in California, SEIU’s Michigan Healthcare local has been settling substandard contracts and failing to represent its members at the worksite. Healthcare workers in Michigan have had enough, and are committed to […]
July 23rd, 2011
Union battle over Kaiser Permanente hospital system is David vs. Goliath affair
New York Daily News: Friday, July 22, 2011 By Juan Gonzalez A leadership split in the country’s most powerful labor union led to a bitter battle in California last fall over who would represent 43,000 workers in the state’s vast Kaiser Permanente hospital system. The Kaiser contest was the biggest union representation election in the U.S. in more […]
July 23rd, 2011
National press covers our legal victory at Kaiser
Brothers and Sisters,
Across the country, newspapers are covering our legal victory this week and reporting on SEIU’s illegal conduct in our election at Kaiser, including the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the San Jose Mercury News, Democracy Now, In These Times and BeyondChron.
The reason for all this press coverage is simple. The judge ruled that SEIU and Kaiser’s conduct was illegal. We told the truth, and now the world is hearing about what we experienced.
July 22nd, 2011
In The News: Judge rules against SEIU in California fight
Washington Post: By Alec MacGillis A judge ruled this week that the Service Employees International Union improperly coerced workers caught in the middle of SEIU’s high-stakes turf battle with a breakaway union in California, potentially invalidating a 2010 election involving 43,500 employees. SEIU, the nation’s most politically influential union, has been engaged in a costly […]
July 22nd, 2011
Judge rules against SEIU in California fight
Washington Post: By Alec MacGillis A judge ruled this week that the Service Employees International Union improperly coerced workers caught in the middle of SEIU’s high-stakes turf battle with a breakaway union in California, potentially invalidating a 2010 election involving 43,500 employees. SEIU, the nation’s most politically influential union, has been engaged in a costly […]