Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care.
The move is seen in U.S. Labor movement circles as a ploy to neuter Sal Rosselli, president of United Health Care Workers - West.
Rosselli has clashed with Stern over a 2004 agreement with nursing home chains in w