July 27th, 2010
Ballots counted: Hospital workers joined NUHW in July 15 election
Victory at Providence Tarzana after ballot count delayed by defeated incumbent union
LOS ANGELES —The National Labor Relations Board has thrown out objections by the now-ousted SEIU, and counted the ballots of nearly 600 caregivers at Providence Tarzana Medical Center who voted on July 15 to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).
The count was 282 votes for NUHW to SEIU’s 69. 38 voted to have no union.
July 26th, 2010
Nearly 600 hospital workers at Providence Tarzana join NUHW
In a landslide election result, nearly 600 workers at Providence Tarzana Medical Center won their election to join NUHW by a vote of 282 (NUHW) to 69 (SEIU). “We’re thrilled to have won this election and put our union back under members’ control,” said Julie Sidrow-Thompson, a monitor tech at the hospital. “For a year […]
July 26th, 2010
BeyondChron: Unite Here Local 2 workers and NUHW in struggles against Kaiser
By Randy Shaw
In the largest internal hotel protest in San Francisco history, nearly 300 UNITE HERE Local 2 workers walked off their jobs and marched through the Hilton lobby on July 13 after Kaiser President Gregory Adams violated the union’s hotel boycott. The hour-long lobby takeover shut down dining facilities including the hotel’s Starbucks, and left Hilton management scurrying to block workers from reaching Adams, who was speaking at a Health Care Leadership Summit. According to Ingrid Carp, a Hilton cook and thirty-year member of Local 2, “workers were outraged when they heard that Adams was violating the Hilton boycott. It provoked the lobby takeover.” While Local 2 battles hotel owners over steep health care premium increases, Kaiser Permanente used the millions it gets from Local 2 and other unions to help generate a 64% rise in net income in the first quarter of 2010 alone. Meanwhile, Kaiser continues to do everything in its power to prevent Local 2’s ally, NUHW, from winning upcoming elections against SEIU-UHW. Kaiser is even allowing a violent thug employed by SEIU to roam their facilities, as it puts the defeat of NUHW ahead of worker safety.
July 23rd, 2010
Federal government will protect Kaiser workers’ right to vote
On a conference call held Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) won an agreement that ensures workers’ right to vote by mail in the privacy of their homes, in a government-protected election to join NUHW. Up to this point, SEIU had insisted that Kaiser workers be forced […]
July 23rd, 2010
Federal government will protect Kaiser workers’ union election
Workers win important victory on terms of election for 44,000 to join NUHW
WASHINGTON, D.C. —On a conference call held Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) won an agreement that ensures workers’ right to vote by mail in the privacy of their homes, in a government-protected election to join NUHW.
Until Wednesday’s call, the embattled incumbent union SEIU had insisted that all employees should be forced to vote in the workplace, where Kaiser managers and SEIU staff have exclusive access and have worked to prevent voters from hearing both sides. NUHW refused to agree to those terms, and advocated for a protected mail-ballot election. The federal government has agreed to set the date for such an election as early as next week.