December 10th, 2009
KRCB-FM: Memorial Hospital union vote
Charges and countercharges are mounting in the run-up to next week’s union representation election at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Father Ray Decker (right), who is active with the Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice group, says that while he and other clergy are pressing Memorial Hospital to take a more Christian stance toward the union organizing efforts of their workforce, they have no illusions about who they are actually speaking to.
December 8th, 2009
Empire Report: Memorial Hospital faces allegations as Workers Face Union Vote
Only days before Memorial Hospital’s workers vote on unionization, the hospital’s administration is facing allegations that it’s dishonoring and disrupting the workers’ right to unionize. Is the hospital dishonoring the respectful workplace principles its local diocese endorsed only two years ago?
December 7th, 2009
Catholic Scholars urge Memorial Hospital administration to stop anti-union campaign
Dr. Joe Fahey of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice writes: “We are deeply alarmed at reports that SJHS has reverted to an earlier form of behavior and is actively seeking to bust the union movement at Santa Rosa. It is a violation of Catholic Social Teaching on workers’ rights for an employer to demonstrate anti-union […]
December 5th, 2009
KQED-FM: Labor Board OKs Union Vote at Kaiser
In the latest development in a bitter feud between competing health care unions, the National Labor Relations Board has decided to allow elections for some 2,300 Kaiser workers in Southern California. The board’s decision is a major blow to the giant Service Employees International Union, which represents tens of thousands of California health care workers. […]