By a more than 20-to-1 margin SEIU-UHW members are choosing to stay united in their union over NUHW.  With this election, workers in 33 facilities have reaffirmed SEIU-UHW as their union. Since Rosselli and the others were removed from union office 15 months ago, 70,060 SEIU-UHW members have chosen to stay in SEIU-UHW - more than 96% of the members who have faced an election.
 
With this threat to their organization and contracts eliminated, the more than 80 workers at All Saints are now able to fully focus on resident care and the workplace issues that affect it.
 
"SEIU-UHW ensures that we have a voice in staffing and other issues at All Saints," said Lisa Ramos, a certified nurses assistant. "NUHW was a distraction that we were happy to vote out of our building."

In April, the other facilities in which SEIU-UHW members eliminated the NUHW threat to their union are:
 

• St. Francis Medical Center, part of the Daughters of Charity Health Systems, in Lynwood, 920 workers
  
• Tiburcio Vasquez Clinic in Hayward, 80 workers
  
• Millbrae Serra Convalescent Hospital in Millbrae, 90 workers
  
• Tiller Oakridge Care Center in Oakridge, 100 workers
  
• Lifehouse in San Jose, 120 workers
  
• Golden Living (Beverly Manor) Convalescent Center in Fresno, 160 workers
  
• San Marco Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Concord, 90 workers
  
• Marysville Care Center in Marysville, 90 workers
  
• Vista Manor Nursing Center in San Jose, 80 workers
  
• Cedars of Marin in Ross, 20 workers
  
• Yuba City Care Center in Yuba City, 50 workers
  
• Empress Care Center in San Jose, 60 workers
  
• Greenfield Care Center of Fairfield, 60 workers
  
• Shields Nursing Center - El Cerrito, 50 workers
  
• Shields Nursing Center - Richmond, 50 workers
  
• Kingsburg Care Center in Kingsburg, 70 workers
  
• Creekside Care Center (Heritage) in Stockton, 50 workers
  
• Washington Care and Rehabilitation Center in San Leandro, 60 workers
  
• Country Villa in San Rafael, 60 workers
  
• University Mound Ladies Home in San Francisco, 20 workers
  
• Clovis Convalescent Hospital in Clovis, 50 workers
  
• Golden Living (Beverly) Center - Hy-Pana in Stockton, 70 workers
  
• Golden Living (Beverly) Center in Galt, 70 workers
  
• Hayward Convalescent in Hayward, 80 workers
  
• Central Gardens Convalescent Hospital in San Francisco, 80 workers
  
• Mission Bay Convalescent Hospital in San Francisco, 35 workers
  
• Avalon Chowchilla nursing home in Avalon, 50 workers
  
• Willow Pass Healthcare Center in Concord, 80 workers
  
• Elmwood Care Center in Berkeley, 60 workers
  
• Kyakameena Sanatorium in Berkeley, 50 workers
  
• San Leandro Healthcare Center in San Leandro, 60 workers
  

Beyond these losses, NUHW is facing unprecedented setbacks on multiple fronts.  On April 9, a Federal jury held NUHW and many of its officers and staff liable for $1.5M in damages for their conduct as they were removed from SEIU-UHW and formed their new union.  NUHW's recently filed annual financial disclosure indicates that they were $1.5M in debt even before the judgment.   
 
"This day has been a long-time coming, but it feels great to keep SEIU-UHW. NUHW has no members, no resources and nothing to offer us," said Marianita Duenas, a certified nurses assistant.


Caregivers at 10 other facilities with elections scheduled will be voting in the coming weeks. Elections scheduled:
 
May 10

• Windsor Manor of Concord, 170 workers
  
• Windsor Gardens of Hayward, 60 workers
  
• Windsor Park Care Center of Fremont, 60 workers 
  
  

May 11

• Enloe Medical Center (Crothall) in Chico, 80 workers
  
• Windsor Skyline Care Center in Salinas, 60 workers 
  
  

May 12

• Windsor Monterey Care Center in Monterey, 50 workers
   
  

May 13

• Windsor the Ridge Rehabilitation Center in Salinas, 100 workers 
  
  

May 14

• Windsor Gardens of Salinas, 90 workers 
  
  

May 17

• In-Home Supportive Services Consortium in San Francisco, 500 workers
  
• Windsor Country Drive Care Center of Fremont, 100 workers  
  

Rather than face defeat, NUHW is still desperately trying to stop elections at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch, Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo, Sutter Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy, and Centinela Hospital in Inglewood. In many cases NUHW is now challenging the composition of the bargaining units, even though they are the same bargaining units for which they themselves petitioned for the election.
 
For more information, or to talk to workers involved, please contact Adriana Surfas at 510.869.2246 or asurfas@seiu-uhw.org.
 

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 SEIU - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is the largest hospital and healthcare union in the western United States with more than 150,000 members. We unite every type of healthcare worker with a mission to achieve high-quality healthcare for all. SEIU-UHW is part of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation's fastest-growing union. Learn more at www.seiu-uhw.org