March 8th, 2010
KPFK’s Strategy Session interview with Sal Rosselli
Source: KPFA https://nuhw.org/storage/media/kpfk_100308_160030strategysession.MP3
March 5th, 2010
Times-Herald: healthcare unions await board’s ruling
By Sarah Rohrs
The battle over which union will represent nearly 6,900 workers at 51 health care facilities in California is heating up.
A major labor board ruling may clear the way for union elections at the facilities., including Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo.
March 4th, 2010
Orange County Register: police investigating union worker fight at hospital
By Deepa Bharath
A 31-year-old union employee could face misdemeanor assault charges after she pushed another union worker who was meeting with employees at Garden Grove Hospital’s cafeteria, police said.
The incident, caught on video and posted on YouTube, shows a woman talking to a hospital employee in a high-pitched, emotional voice. Then the man holding the camera remarks: “Blame it on the members, blame your incompetence…” At that point, the woman charges toward the camera mouthing obscenities at the man and knocks the camera out of his hands.
March 4th, 2010
Modern Healthcare: union votes allowed at over 30 healthcare sites
By: Joe Carlson
The National Labor Relations Board has cleared the way for union elections at more than 30 healthcare facilities in Northern California, while withholding judgment on requests for union elections at another 30 or so.
The NUHW has filed dozens of petitions in the past year to have workers decertify their SEIU units and switch to NUHW. The new group has had a handful of election successes, but most of its petitions have been blocked procedurally by SEIU through charges filed with the national labor board.
March 3rd, 2010
Statement by NUHW on today’s decision by the National Labor Relations Board
Today’s decision will allow SEIU officials to manipulate the labor board’s process in order to divide workers, by strategically unblocking elections first at facilities where they think they can avoid another loss.
“It’s shameful that SEIU would rather divide workers than let their own members vote,” said Jeanne Pilotte, a dietary aide at Seton Medical Center for more than 30 years.
“Daughters of Charity workers fought hard in bargaining so we could unite our strength across all five hospitals and have a stronger voice for ourselves and our patients,” she said. “Since 2004, we have all bargainined our contract at the same table. When SEIU took over, we petitioned the labor board together to join NUHW and take back our union. Now SEIU wants to make us vote separately so they can try to keep some of us trapped in their organization.”
“It won’t work. We’re voting for NUHW to bring back democracy and integrity in our union.”