SEIU members want out of the union, SEIU unaccountable to members

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 21 –

Filing asks federal government to reconsider decision to hold elections for nearly 2,000 Northern California Kaiser employees to join NUHW

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As 44,000 Kaiser Permanente workers vote by mail in their election to leave SEIU and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), three more groups of Kaiser workers in Northern California are eagerly awaiting their own elections. But the incumbent union SEIU today made a last-ditch effort to stop those three elections and deny nearly 2,000 union members the right to vote.

In a filing with the National Labor Relations Board, SEIU officials begged the federal government to ignore petitions from hundreds of workers and reconsider the decision by the NLRB's Regional Director to move forward with the elections.

Read the filing: http://bit.ly/SEIU-begs

"It's our legal right to hold these elections, but SEIU officials are afraid we'll vote them out," said Emily Ryan, a psychiatric social worker at Kaiser Folsom. "They're spending millions of our dues dollars on lawyers to try to deny us our right to choose a better union. Why would anyone want to be trapped in an organization like that?"

SEIU stands to lose more than $40 million a year in membership dues if Kaiser workers vote to become an independent union. The election already underway for 44,000 Kaiser employees to join NUHW is the largest private-sector union election since the 1940s.

NUHW is California's fastest-growing union, made up of thousands of healthcare workers across the state who have rejected unaccountable SEIU leaders who exclude members from important decisions about their jobs and benefits. Instead, NUHW supporters are choosing a union where decisions are made by Kaiser workers themselves.

More than 2,300 Southern California Kaiser workers have already joined NUHW in landslide elections. One of their first accomplishments was winning 171 new positions at Kaiser's flagship Los Angeles hospital, a victory for patient care that also creates more quality jobs with good pay and benefits.

Federal law protects Kaiser workers' promised raises and benefits when they join NUHW. When management tried to flout the law in April by delaying a scheduled raise, the National Labor Relations Board stepped in and is now prosecuting Kaiser management to make sure they follow the law.

SOURCE National Union of Healthcare Workers


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It’s Their Money, Chris Matthews Explains Taxes to Obama

It’s Their Money’: Chris Matthews Explains Taxes to Obama

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another Obama staffer wants Wealth Redistribution

WH Science Czar: Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop’ U.S., Wealth Redistribution


WH Science Czar: Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop’ U.S., Wealth Redistribution ‘Absolutely Essential’

In an on-the-fly interview with CNSNews.com, White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren explained what he meant when he wrote in his 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions that “A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States.”

In that book, co-authored with Paul and Anne H. Ehrlich, Holdren also calls wealth redistribution (both within and among nations) “absolutely essential” in order to provide a decent life for everyone.




Posted on September 16, 2010 at 2:30pm by Jonathon M. Seidl