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Kaiser Aftermath: How About Some Competition to Organize Healthcare Workers?

DC Politics Health Care Labor Organizing National Politics Organizing May 3, 2013May 3, 2013 by digital

Little Rock Probably surprising none of the organizers involved or anyone looking at the campaign, the vote count on the rerun decertification election between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) produced the same result with a wider margin as Kaiser hospital workers in California overwhelming voted for …

California Nurses Go it Alone Strategy Reaps What it Sows

Labor Organizing Organizing February 15, 2013February 15, 2013 by digital

New Orleans In the alphabet soup of labor, the National Federation of Nurses with 34,000 members in Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Ohio, announced that they were merging with the American Federation of Teachers, coupling the AFT’s 48,000 nurses to bring that union up to 82,000 nurses. They said they wanted to go to a union …