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REGION, January 28th- Negotiations for a successor labor agreement between the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Professionals (PASNAP) Union and Community Health Systems (CHS) Inc., which is the largest owner of for-profit hospitals in the country, and owns and operates the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital is continuing but the two sides are still far away from reaching a contract.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Thousands of table-game dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino reached their first labor contract with the Indian tribe that owns the casino on Tuesday, positioning them to become the largest group of union-represented dealers at any U.S. casino.
Foxwoods, owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, is the nation's largest casino.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
KINGSTON — Nurses working at Benedictine and Kingston hospitals have won $6,000 in back pay, according to the union representing them.
Five nurses who are employed by Nistel Inc. won the pay “as a result of the employer’s unilateral change to its on-call policy,” according to the union, the New York state Nurses Association.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers throughout Southern California have voted overwhelmingly to quit the giant Service Employees International Union and join a smaller rival union, according to election results released today.
The National Labor Relations Board, which tallied secret-ballot votes cast earlier this month, said that about 2,000 nurses and care professionals voted more than 6 to 1 in favor of ditching the SEIU and affiliating with the rival National Union of Healthcare Workers, a breakaway faction that is challenging the SEIU’s dominance.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following the announcement of the union election results for Kaiser Permanente nurses, psych-social workers, and professionals in Southern California, Steve Trossman, communications director of the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW), issued the following statement:
"While today's election results are disappointing, the fact is only about 2,600 SEIU-UHW members have chosen NUHW over the past year, in contrast to more than 55,000 SEIU members who have chosen to stay united in our union.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Business groups are rallying against an Obama administration labor board nominee they fear will implement new rules making it easier for unions to organize.
Labor lawyer Craig Becker was re-nominated to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last week. His nomination last year was approved by a Senate panel but never received a confirmation vote by the full chamber.
Becker, an associate general counsel to both the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO, is being treated by business trade groups as someone who could institute parts of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) through executive action if confirmed, a bill favored by unions but opposed by the business community.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Tuition reimbursement was reinstated for the children of 1,500 unionized nurses and health-care professionals at the Temple University Health System by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board last week.
About 150 members, whose dependents had been using the benefit, should be reimbursed about $1 million, said Bill Cruice, chief negotiator for the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals.
Monday, January 25, 2010
After more than nine months of negotiations between Boston College and its unionized facilities workers, who are members of the Local 615 chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the University has drafted a new version of the employee contract that will be voted on by the workers on Jan. 26.
BC and the 270 facilities workers involved in the dispute have been negotiating since last April, when their three-year contract expired. There is a clause in the current contract, Article 18, which prevents the University from hiring outside workers for overtime work. University officials would like to change this clause in light of the recent economic downturn. Negotiations over the contract proposal that is currently on the table concluded Jan. 21, with the vote set for Tuesday.
Monday, January 25, 2010
OAKLAND, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- After months and months of saying they wanted union elections held immediately at hospitals and nursing homes in California, former SEIU-UHW officials who were ousted from the union are now trying to stop 29 elections that are ready to proceed for more than 4,000 workers.
The former union officials, who were ousted last January for misusing union funds and undermining members' democratic rights, formed a group in January 2009 called the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). NUHW filed for elections with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to "decertify" SEIU-UHW and have the workers come over to their organization. Now, they have filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB to get the elections stopped.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
A University of Maryland professor has pulled his institution into a heated labor debate in California, prompting a rebuke from administrators and inviting questions about his own conflicts of interest.
As a paid consultant for Service Employees International, the nation's fastest growing labor union, Fred Feinstein recently wrote a legal opinion suggesting that California health care workers could receive “less favorable” benefits if they left SEIU for another union. Feinstein penned his opinion on university letterhead, which was then photocopied and used by SEIU as campaign literature, urging workers to stay on as members.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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