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As labor leaders fight to sign up 10,000 health-care workers, a California-based union is charging the Service Employees International Union with changing ballots and threatening to report a worker to immigration officials.
The allegations are the latest twist in a contentious battle to represent workers in the rapidly growing sector of home health care. Labor experts say the feud is a costly and embarrassing distraction for unions as they lobby Congress to pass legislation that would ease organizing rules in their favor.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
A competing union has accused the Service Employees International Union of changing ballots and threatening to report workers to immigration officials in a contentious battle to represent more than 10,000 home health-care workers in Fresno County.
The National Union of Healthcare Workers filed charges Nov. 6 with the California Public Employment Relations Board.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Washington, DC--Today, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) released the following statement of Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger on President Obama's call for a jobs forum in December:
Said Burger, "We are now 22 months into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In those 22 months we have lost 8.1 million jobs, and 17.5 percent of the workforce - 27.4 million workers - are unemployed, underemployed, or have given up looking for work. The scale of our problems is simply staggering.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Workers at a luxury hotel in San Francisco walked off the job today, beginning a three-day strike. The action by Palace Hotel workers is the second of such demonstrations in the past week, which aim to block hotel chains' efforts to squeeze employees in a down economy.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
A study has found that just one in 10 union members is in manufacturing, while women account for more than 45 percent of the unionized work force.
The study, by the Center for Economic Policy Research, a Washington-based group, found that union membership is far less blue-collar and factory-based than in labor’s heyday, when the United Automobile Workers and the United Steelworkers dominated.
According to the study, “The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008,” just 11 percent of union members work in manufacturing, down from nearly 30 percent in the 1980s.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Over the last quarter century, the unionized workforce has changed dramatically. In 1983, over half of all union workers were white men, few union workers had a college degree, and almost one-third were in manufacturing.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
SANTA ROSA, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The last-minute scheduling of a union election for about 600 Memorial hospital workers came as a bitter-sweet surprise last Monday morning, even within the context of a high-pitched battle between two Northern California unions.
Three days after a labor official said he did not expect the parties to agree on election terms any time soon, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Service Employees International Union and the National Union of Healthcare Workers all signed a ballot agreement.
Monday, November 09, 2009
NORTH ADAMS -- Union officials at North Adams Regional Hospital charged Friday that hospital management has presented employees with a list of 18 demands that, among other things, threaten retirement benefits, overtime pay and seniority status for the number of years worked at the hospital.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Catholic Healthcare West has reached an agreement with the California Nurses Association on two new contracts and the extension of a third, avoiding a threatened strike over swine flu concerns.
The contracts cover about 12,000 nurses at 32 facilities in California and Nevada, including Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
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