By Matt SmithThe Service Employees International Union plans to spend $50 million during the coming months lobbying for a bill that would make it harder for employers to fight against unionization drives.But critics of the union's national leader, Andy Stern, say ongoing scandals in California may stymie the union's drive to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow employees to form unions in a workplace when a preponderance of them fill out a pro-union form, rather having to contest
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
Andy Stern, boss of the two-million-member Service Employees International Union, sent an ultimatum Thursday to California health care workers ordering them to accept a deal critics say will undermine the rights of elderly nursing home patients. The ultimatum comes after Stern claimed last fall that the Bay Area-based SEIU affiliate United Healthcare Workers West had misused union dues. Sal Rosselli, the affiliate's president, called the charges a sham and said Stern's concern wasn't financial i
The leader of an Oakland-based health-care affiliate of the Service Employees International Union said Monday that workers may quit the union en masse if SEIU president Andy Stern follows through on a threat to take over the affiliate.
"If the SEIU International forces us into trusteeship, we will consider all lawful options within and outside the SEIU to honor our members' wishes," said Sal Rosselli, leader of United Healthcare Workers-West, which represents 150,000 orderlies, nurses, and
This just in from our LA Weekly colleague Steven Mikulan:
A press release just issued by the Washington, D.C.
headquarters of the Service Employees Union International announced it has
served trusteeship
papers on its rebel health-care workers local, known as the United
Healthcare Workers-West. The Oakland-based UHW, headed by its president, Sal
Rosselli, has been engaged over the last few years in a struggle with SEIU's executive
board, led by its president, Andy Stern, over the latter's prog
This summer, the Service Employees International Union plans to spend some $50 million to ensure passage of a labor-friendly law that would allow any workforce to join a union if more than half of its employees sign a petition. Currently, workers approve whether a union should represent them in elections which, labor leaders say, can be easily manipulated by employers.
Renegade labor leader Sal Rosselli today said the SEIU, America's largest union, has an opportunity in California to achieve the
The National Union Of Healthcare Workers, a renegade splinter union formed in January when the Service Employees International Union ousted the leadership of its 120,000-member United Healthcare West affiliate, claims to be near stealing away 50,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente.The new union is holding a press conference at 11 a.m. today to announced that more than half the workers at Kaiser Permanente have signed petitions expressing their wish to leave SEIU and join the NUHW. Under federa
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