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Labor News
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With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, four Pittsfield-based Help at Home employees have filed federal unfair labor practice charges against the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for threatening workers with termination if they refused to sign union authorization cards.
The cards, which the employer counted as “votes” in favor of unionization, were then used to force employees to accept SEIU officials as their exclusive bargaining agents at the Pittsfield Help at Home office.
Friday, May 07, 2010
SEIU's "membership problems" are growing. Apparently, SEIU 1991 RNs at HCA's Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL just filed for a decertification election. Northside is one of only 10 hospitals that SEIU Healthcare Florida represents in the entire state. Sources say that, after nurses filed for the decert election, the California Nurses Association approached the hospital's 250 RNs about joining the CNA. But RNs apparently said they didn't want anything to do with CNA since it's in a partnership with SEIU.
Friday, May 07, 2010
The incoming president of the Service Employees International Union won't lead the giant union back into the AFL-CIO, she wrote in a letter to the rival Change to Win federation, which retiring President Andy Stern founded as an AFL rival.
"SEIU has had no discussion about returning to the AFL-CIO," Mary Kay Henry wrote in the letter. "The needs of hardworking women and men in this country transcend conversation about the configuration of the labor movement and instead call on us all to work together in the interest of workers and their families.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Mary Kay Henry Letter to Change to Win Leadership Board
Thursday, May 06, 2010
In one of the state's largest union elections in decades, 5,500 home care providers overwhelmingly voted "yes" to unite in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). SEIU is the largest and fastest growing union of healthcare workers in the Americas.
"I love my work and I put my clients first," said home care provider Odessa Robinson of Wasau. "And there are thousands of home care providers in Wisconsin that feel the same way as me: we want to see our work improve. That's why I voted to join with SEIU."
Thursday, May 06, 2010
When the final vote was counted, cheers rose up from the crowd. 300 registered nurses at Alle-Kiski Medical Center in Pittsburgh had voted to join our union, have a stronger voice in the future of the hospital, and to improve patient care.
"This is absolutely fantastic," exclaimed Maria Radvansky, an RN in the hospital's emergency room. "We're going to move forward and work with management to make this the best hospital in the valley."
Thursday, May 06, 2010
A union victory in Houston late Friday has energized labor leaders in El Paso who are trying to organize Las Palmas and Del Sol Hospitals.
The vote at Houston’s Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center, the first private-sector hospital in Texas to vote for union representation, was the culmination of years of organizing effort by the National Nurses Organizing Committee, or NNOC.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Union employees from Hamilton Sundstrand will see 2.5 percent raises annually for the next three years, but will have to pay more for insurance.
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers approved a new contract Sunday, with about 95 percent of the members attending voting for the proposal, said Mark A. Hebert, president of the union and a Wilbraham resident.
"Members felt it was a fair offer and people were satisfied with it," he said.
Monday, May 03, 2010
The number of California hospital beds declined by 4%—to 80,616 in 2007 from 83,734 in 2001—despite population growth of 9% statewide to about 35.5 million over the same six-year period, according to a new report
General acute-care beds in the state rose slightly, from 83% of all beds in 2001 to 87% in 2007, but skilled-nursing beds fell from 11% to 9%, according to the report by the California HealthCare Foundation.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
California Hospital Facts and Figures Full Report by the California HealthCare Foundation
Sunday, May 02, 2010
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