March 26th, 2011
Cottonwood Healthcare nursing home breaks with SEIU
By Kathy Robertson The Sacramento Business Journal March 24, 2011 Workers at the Cottonwood Healthcare nursing home in Woodland voted this week to leave Service Employees International Union and join its two-year-old rival. The National Labor Relations Board completed the vote count Tuesday, with a final tally of 54 to 1 in favor of the National Union […]
March 26th, 2011
Health care workers at two Woodland nursing homes vote to leave Service Employees International Union and join rival NUHW
By Mark Glover The Sacramento Bee March 25, 2011 Workers at Woodland Nursing & Rehabilitation and the Cottonwood Healthcare Center nursing home in Woodland have voted overwhelmingly to leave the Service Employees International Union and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers. Wednesday’s vote at Cottonwood was 54-1, and Thursday’s vote at Woodland Nursing was […]
March 25th, 2011
Woodland Workers Vote by a 10 to 1 Margin to Leave SEIU and Join NUHW!
Following on the heels of a near-unanimous vote on Wednesday by workers at the Cottonwood nursing home to leave SEIU and join NUHW, employees of the Woodland nursing facility near Sacramento voted today to do the same by a vote of 40 for NUHW to 4 for SEIU. As with their co-workers at Cottonwood, a […]
March 24th, 2011
Workers at Cottonwood Healthcare choose NUHW by vote of 54-1
Workers at Cottonwood Healthcare nursing home voted almost unanimously yesterday to leave SEIU and join NUHW. The National Labor Relations Board completed the vote count yesterday, with a final tally of 54 for NUHW to a single vote for SEIU. “We’re done with SEIU – finally,” said Eloise Reese-Burns, a Certified Nursing Assistant at Cottonwood […]
March 17th, 2011
A Message From Our Union Brothers and Sisters in Japan
‘Zenroren,’ the National Confederation of Trade Unions, is the second largest labor federation in Japan. Dear Sisters and Brothers around the world, On behalf of 1.2 million Japanese working people, Zenroren wishes to express our sincere appreciation for unions and individuals around the world for help dealing with the devastating “Tohoku Pacific Earthquake” which struck […]