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More than 350 Workers in Three Healthcare Facilities Stay United in SEIU-UHW, Reject NUHW
OAKLAND - More than 350 healthcare workers in two nursing homes and a hospital in Northern California will stay with their current union, the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) - in another rejection of the...
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Workers in Four Healthcare Facilities Set to Vote for SEIU-UHW
OAKLAND - Over the next 9 days, healthcare workers in two nursing homes and two hospitals in Northern California will be voting to stay with their current union, the Service Employees International Union -United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW)....
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Day 11: Kaiser Election Held Hostage
NLRB Ready to Act on Election for 43,000 Kaiser Workers Despite NUHW's Refusal to Sign an Election Agreement OAKLAND - Eleven days after they claimed in a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that they wanted an election...
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Day 8: Union Election Held Hostage
NUHW Still Won't Agree to Election for 43,000 Kaiser Workers OAKLAND - The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) is still refusing to agree to a union election for 43,000 Kaiser workers to go forward in the next 60 days,...
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NUHW Refuses to Go Forward with Union Election for 46,000 Kaiser Workers
OAKLAND - Two weeks after filing for a union election among 46,000 Kaiser workers in California, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) refused to sign an agreement that would allow the election to go forward in the next 60...
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Judge Stops Cuts to Fresno County's Vital Home Care Program
Home Care Providers Win a Temporary Restraining Order to Stop the County of Fresno from Implementing Cuts that Would Harm Seniors and People with Disabilities and Cost the County $33 Million in Matching Funds OAKLAND - Just days before Fresno...
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Approval of Contract Between Employees and Kaiser Permanente Guarantees 46,000 Good Jobs in a Sea of Unemployment in California
A majority of members of the largest union of healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente, the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), came out in record numbers to give 94% approval of a new national labor agreement after 10...
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Federal Judge Reaffirms $1.57 million Judgment Against Former SEIU-UHW Officials and NUHW
Federal Jury Found in April that Former President Sal Rosselli and others Sabotaged and Undermined Union Members, and Used Members' Dues to Start Rival Union SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has reaffirmed the $1.57 million in damages owed to...
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Hundreds of Seniors, People with Disabilities & their Caregivers Descend on Capitol to Protect Life-Saving Home Care Program Threatened by Gov's Budget
Hold Save Home Care Rally at State Capitol with CA Insurance Commissioner Candidate Dave Jones SACRAMENTO - More than 1,000 seniors, disabled people, and their caregivers from across the state blanketed the State Capitol for a day of action, including...
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NLRB Delivers Third Strike for Sal Rosselli and Other Former SEIU-UHW Officials
Top Labor Board Official Finds that Sal Rosselli and Other Former Union Leaders Deliberately Harmed Union Members OAKLAND - The National Labor Relations Board issued a third strike against Sal Rosselli, ousted president of the Service Employees International Union -...
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NLRB Orders New Union Election for Healthcare Workers at Alameda County Jails
OAKLAND - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has overturned an April union election and ordered a new election be held for more than 140 healthcare workers who provide care at Alameda County's two correctional facilities. The NLRB has called...
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More Than 600 SEIU-UHW Members Defeat NUHW in Elections at St. Louise and O'Connor Hospitals
SAN JOSE/GILROY, CA - In union elections at two Daughters of Charity Health Systems facilities - O'Connor Hospital in San Jose and Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy - more than 600 caregivers resoundingly voted to keep their union -...
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San Francisco Home Care Workers Praise Mayor Newsom's Halt to Attempted 733% Hike in Healthcare Premiums
SAN FRANCISCO -The 2010-2011 budget released yesterday by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom reflects his ongoing support for vital programs that help the aging and the disabled, including In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS). By rejecting commission proposals for a 733% increase...
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Largest Union of Kaiser Permanente Caregivers Celebrates Gains for Patients, Families, Communities of Newly-Reached Labor Agreement
Agreement upholds high standards at nation's largest not-for-profit healthcare provider OAKLAND/LOS ANGELES/FRESNO/SACRAMENTO - Outside of Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers across the state, Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) members and their families celebrated the impact the...
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National Bargaining for 96,000 Union Members at Kaiser Permanente Complete
SEIU-UHW Members Reach Tentative Agreement with Raises, Full Retention of All Benefits Including Healthcare OAKLAND - Concluding months of bargaining for a new national agreement covering 96,000 union members at Kaiser Permanente, the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare...
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San Francisco Home Care Workers Demonstrate Strong Commitment to SEIU-UHW and NUHW Walks-Away from Another Election
SEIU plots fresh course with new international president, while NUHW, the financially-strapped group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials, suffers more rejection with 43rd election loss SAN FRANCISCO - More than 500 caregivers in the In-Home Supportive Services...
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Sal Rosselli and Other Former SEIU-UHW Officials Lose Round 2 in Federal Court
U.S. District Judge William Alsup Removes Rosselli and Four Other Defendants from $20 Million Union Education Fund SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge has booted Sal Rosselli, ousted president of the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West...
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NUHW surrenders to 700 SEIU-UHW members at 8 Windsor Nursing Homes
Significant rejection of NUHW, the financially-strapped group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials, continues as they face 41st election loss OAKLAND – More than 700 caregivers at the Windsor nursing home chain in Northern California won elections today...
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Nursing Home Workers Vote to Keep SEIU-UHW, Rebuff Former Union Officials
Setbacks for NUHW, the financially-strapped group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials, persist as they face 33rd election loss OAKLAND - Nursing home workers at All Saints Sub-Acute & Rehabilitation Center in San Leandro voted in an election...
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United around SEIU-UHW, Caregivers at Tiburcio Vasquez Reject former Leadership
Setbacks for NUHW, the financially-strapped group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials, grow as they face 32nd election loss OAKLAND – More than 120 Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) members at Tiburcio Vasquez Clinic in...
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In April, Thousands of SEIU-UHW Members Keep Their Union as NUHW's Election Losses Rise to 31
Setbacks for NUHW, the financially-strapped group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials, grow as they face 31st election loss OAKLAND – More than 1,000 Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) members at 17 Northern California nursing...
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Patient Care is New Star at Cedars Sinai, As New Union Contract Helps Hospital, Workers Maintain Quality Patient Care
Raises and protections in agreement strengthens staff retention LOS ANGELES – Licensed vocational nurses, certified nurse assistants, environmental services technicians and other caregivers who are members of Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), at Cedars Sinai...
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Afraid of Workers' Choice of SEIU-UHW, NUHW Walks Away from Two More Election Campaigns, Bringing Total to 11 Losses
2,000 workers stay united in SEIU-UHW as group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials faces string of setbacks OAKLAND - More than 200 caregivers at Hayward Convalescent in Hayward and Lifehouse in San Jose won their election campaign...
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9th & Final Sutter Hospital Contract Ratified, Helps Hospital, Workers Maintain Quality Patient Care
Raises and protections in agreement strengthens staff retention SANTA ROSA, CA - Last night radiology techs, surgical techs, clerical staff, environmental services,and other caregivers, members of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) ratified a new union contract -...
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SEIU-UHW Wins Election Campaigns in 9 Facilities in Two Weeks as More Workers Reject Union's Former Leaders
1,500 workers stay united in SEIU-UHW as group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials faces string of setbacks OAKLAND–260 caregivers at four facilities reaffirmed their support yesterday for SEIU-UHW over the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), the...
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Seventh Union Loss in a Row for Group Started by Sal Rosselli and Former SEIU-UHW Officials
950 Caregivers at St. Francis Medical Center Win Election Campaign Over NUHW, Bringing to More than 1,800 Workers in Past Two Weeks Who Are Staying United in SEIU-UHW LYNWOOD, CA – More than 950 caregivers at St. Francis Medical Center...
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SEIU and UHW on a roll
50 Tarzana Crothall Workers Chose SEIU, 650 SEIU-UHW Members at 3 facilities say "goodbye" to NUHW, and National News Coverage of $1.5 million judgment against Rosselli and NUHWTarzana Workers Chose SEIUTarzana EVS workers voted YES to join Service Workers United...
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News coverage of the NUHW verdict
Sacramento Business Journal http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/04/05/daily63.html NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/us/10brfs-UNIONWINSDAM_BRF.html?pagewanted=print LATimes http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/04/federal-jury-rules-against-new-union-seeking-to-represent-healthcare-workers.html April 9, 2010 California: Union Wins Damages By STEVEN GREENHOUSE A federal jury in San Francisco awarded more than $1.5 million in damages to the Service Employees International Union on Friday...
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They left behind their honor: Closing argument is a step-by-step walk through the Rosselli conspiracy
Closing arguments were delivered today in the trial of Sal Rosselli, John Borsos, Barbara Lewis, John Vellardita, Glenn Goldstein, Paul Kumar and 20 other former officials of our union on allegations that they deliberately sabotaged our union, misused our dues...
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SEIU-UHW Calls on Attorney General to Investigate Potential Medi-Cal Overbilling by Major California Nursing Home Chain
OAKLAND - The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) today called on California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown to investigate potential overbilling of the Medi-Cal program by North American Health Care, Inc. (NAHC), a nursing home chain with...
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Major California Nursing Home Chain Allegedly Falsified Records, Overbilled Medicare $100 Million
ORANGE COUNTY- North American Health Care (NAHC) appears to have overbilled Medicare by $100 million over the last five years, according to research by Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) corroborated in today's Washington Post story, "Review heightens...
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Union Vote Set to Allow St. Francis Medical Center Workers to Reject Outside Group, Protect Patient Care Standards
LYNWOOD, CA-- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has scheduled an election at St. Francis Medical Center so that healthcare workers can vote to keep their union, the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) and reject an outside...
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First Union Contract Settled at O'Connor Woods Helps Facility, Workers Maintain Quality Resident Care
Raises and protections in agreement strengthens staff retention STOCKTON, CA - Culminating a four-and-a-half-year effort, certified nursing assistants, dietary aides, housekeepers, and other caregivers, who are members of Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW), at O'Connor...
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Trial Set for March 22 for Former SEIU-UHW Leaders
SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit against a group of former union officials who were ousted more than a year ago from the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) will go to trial in federal court here...
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Healthcare Workers at Alameda County Jails Strike
Workers standing up for safe working conditions OAKLAND, CA - Nurses, physician's assistants, dental assistants and others who provide medical care at Alameda County's two correctional facilities, are holding a one-day unfair labor practices strike over concerns about staffing levels...
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Prison Strike Countdown: Healthcare Workers at Alameda County Jails Ready to Strike March 9
Workers standing up for safe working conditions get support from Fellow SEIU Members in Oregon and Tennessee OAKLAND, CA - Nurses, physician's assistants, dental assistants and others who provide medical care at Alameda County's two correctional facilities are continuing to...
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Major Labor Board Ruling Begins to Clear the Way for Union Elections at 51 California Healthcare Facilities
NLRB Dismisses Latest Attempt by Ousted Union Leaders to Block Votes for 6,715 Workers Workers affected in: Antioch, Berkeley, Castro Valley, Chico, Chowchilla, Clovis, Concord, Dublin, El Cerrito, Fairfield, Fresno, Freemont, Galt, Gilroy, Hayward, Inglewood, Kingsburg, Lynwood, Marysville, Millbrae, Monterey,...
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More than 1,000 Nursing Home Workers Tell Former Union Leaders to 'Go Away and Stop Putting Our Future at Risk'
EMERYVILLE, CA - More than 1,000 workers from 50 California nursing homes signed a letter delivered to the former officials of their union with a plain message: Get out of our facilities and stop putting our future and our union...
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Healthcare Workers at Alameda County Correctional Facilities Prepare to Strike
Nurses, Others Pushed to Wall by Prison Health Services Takeaways, Demand Accountability to Taxpayers OAKLAND, CA - Healthcare workers at Glenn Dyer Detention Facility and Santa Rita Jail, employees of Prison Health Services (PHS), have authorized an unfair labor practice...
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Fresno's Healthcare Problem: Are Supervisors Creating a TB Crisis?
With TB infections rising, budget cuts by Supervisors Case & Larson, make situation more dangerous for Fresno's families FRESNO, CA - Tuberculosis rates in Fresno County are on the rise, yet Supervisors Judy Case and Phil Larson are putting Fresno...
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Media Coverage of SEIU-UHW Unity Events
On Thursday, February 18, SEIU-UHW members at 8 facilities across the state held spirited events to protect their patients, their union, and their future. Their ultimate goal was to demand that representatives of NUHW, a splinter group founded by...
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Workers at 8 Hospitals Stand Up for Their Patients, Their Future, and Their Union
Tell NUHW: "Get Out of Our Hospital!" To protect their patients, their union, and their future, healthcare workers in the Bay Area and Los Angeles held spirited rallies today to demand that representatives of a splinter group interfering with patient...
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Sacramento County Home Care Workers' New Contract Improves Health Benefits and Maintains Care for Seniors and People with Disabilities
Sacramento County, CA - Home Care workers in Sacramento County have a new two-year contract that protects employees' wages, improves their healthcare, and ensures that seniors and people with disabilities will continue receiving the services they need to live independently...
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Elected Officials, Caregivers Picket Community and Mission Hospital of Huntington Park
HUNTINGTON PARK, CA - Community leaders, including State Senator Gilbert Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), Carson City Mayor Jim Dear, Inglewood City Councilman Ralph Franklin, and Sergio Calderon, Division 4 Director of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, and healthcare workers...
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Line in the Sand Drawn: Pension for Home Care Workers Must be Protected
Contra Costa Central Labor Council Stands in Solidarity with Home Care Providers Passing Resolution Supporting Workers' Pensions Martinez, CA - The Central Labor Council of Contra Costa County passed a resolution stating that to receive the Council's endorsement, members of...
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Latest Twist: Ousted Union Officials Show True Colors By Trying to Stop 29 Union Elections
NUHW Knows that if Elections Are Held They Will Lose OAKLAND - 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...
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In Stark Reversal, Former Union Leaders Now Attempting to Stop Union Elections for More Than 4,000 Workers
After A Year of Demanding Elections, NUHW Now Says Giving These Workers a Vote is "Unfair" OAKLAND - In a stunning turnaround, the ousted leaders of the Service Employees International Union - United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) now say they...
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SEIU-UHW Members at 26 Hospitals and Nursing Homes Seeking Elections Against Group Started by the Union's Ousted Leaders
4,000 Healthcare Workers Seek Vote to Join More Than 55,000 Others Who Have Already Chosen to Stay United in SEIU OAKLAND, CA - Healthcare workers at 26 California hospitals and nursing homes are seeking elections to join more than 55,000...
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In Tough Economy SEIU-UHW Members' Wage Increases Far Exceed the National Average
Oakland, CA - Members of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers-West who secured contracts in 2009 received wage increases nearly double the national average despite an economy in California that is among the worst in the nation. "SEIU-UHW hospital members...
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Labor Board Decision Puts Kaiser Workers' Pay, Healthcare, Pensions in Jeopardy
Kaiser RNs, Social Workers, & Professionals in SoCal Could Lose As Much As $15,000 in Raises and Health and Retirement Protections in the Midst of the Economic Crisis A decision issued today by a regional director of the National Labor...
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700,000 SEIU Workers Applaud Historic House Vote for Health Insurance Reform that Works for California's Families
SACRAMENTO, CA -- Representing 700,000 working men and women, the Service Employees' International Union (SEIU) California applauded tonight's vote by the House of Representatives to pass the America's Affordable Health Choices Act (H.R. 3962), calling the bill's passage an historic...
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Home Care Workers Prevail: Marin County to Maintain Living Wage Ordinance
With over 40 home care workers, seniors, people with disabilities, community leaders and members of the clergy in attendance, the Marin County Board of Supervisors voted to put an end to an effort to abandon the living wage ordinance.
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Kaiser Workers Picket Across California
SEIU-UHW members take layoff fight to Orange County, Sacramento, Santa Rosa and Fresno
Sacramento/Orange County - Kaiser Permanente employees will be picketing in force outside five Kaiser facilities this week to protest company plans to slash 1,350 jobs in coming months. More than 5,000 union members have attended the 14 prior pickets in SEIU-UHW's statewide campaign.
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DOL Dismisses Complaints Against SEIU For Imposition of Trusteeship Upon UHW
The Labor Department Aug. 17 dismissed complaints filed by members of United Healthcare Workers West, a California local, alleging that the Service Employees International Union unjustifiably imposed a trusteeship upon the local. The Labor Department Aug. 17 dismissed complaints filed by members of United Healthcare Workers West, a California local, alleging that the Service Employees International Union unjustifiably imposed a trusteeship upon the local. Download PDF »
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Court Slaps Former Officials of SEIU-UHW with Preliminary Injunction
After Finding They "Filched" and "Sabotaged" Union Property in Effort to Create a New Union Despite Negative Impact on Members, Sal Rosselli and Others Tried to Make their Former Union "Ungovernable," U.S. District Court Judge Finds OAKLAND, CA -- A...
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Clock Ticking on California Budget: SEIU-UHW Members Urge Governor to Choose Compromise Over Catastrophe
With just 12 hours left until California begins to default on its obligations to seniors, people with disabilities, students and small businesses, health care workers and community activists gathered at locations across the state to demand that Governor Schwarzenegger stop...
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Tell the Governor to Support Common-Sense Budget on Tuesday!
SEIU members and allies are gathering outside Governor Schwarzenegger's offices at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 30, to urge him to support a "common sense" budget before a critical midnight deadline. Events will take place outside the Governor's offices in...
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For Fresno Couple, Budget Cuts Hit Close to Home
Dinnertime comes again at the home of Carlos and Mikesha Martinez. Just two years ago, life was much different. "She was going to school for physical therapy. She used to work at Gottschalks. She used to be the girl who...
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SEIU TV Ad Calls for Common Sense Budget
SEIU began airing an ad yesterday that calls for some sanity and common sense in the budget conversation taking place in Sacramento....
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Families, Consumers of Home Care Impacted by Budget Cuts to Hold Noon Vigil Outside Fresno Board of Supervisors Meeting as Clock Ticks Down to July 1st Deadline
Representatives and supporters of the more than 12,000 families who rely on In-Home Support Services to care for elderly or disabled loved ones will hold a vigil on Tuesday at noon out side of the Fresno Board of Supervisors meeting...
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Victory by SEIU-backed Judy Chu, CA 32nd Congressional Dist.
A significant victory came last night for SEIU-endorsed Congressional candidate and state Board of Equalization member Judy Chu. Her victory party last night in Covina was a who's-who of local labor and California, L.A., and Eastside social and economic justice...
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UHW Member Team Reduces Layoffs from 200 to 7
On May 15th, our UHW-SEIU Member-Led Bargaining Team at Sutter Health's California Pacific Medical Center emerged victoriously from final negotiations regarding layoffs. The Team dramatically reduced the number from management's original proposal of 200, including UHW-SEIU members, down to only...
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Taking to the Airwaves in Fresno Fight
In the fight to Protect Fresno Home Care, UHW-SEIU is expanding our message. We are on the air in Fresno County with three hard-hitting new radio ads - one in Spanish and two in English. This ad, "Solution," sends...
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Kaiser in the News
Sutter promotes its Santa Rosa hospital plan By Mike McCoy The Press Democrat Published: Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 4:11 p.m. Sutter Health officials on Tuesday will give Santa Rosa city council members a preview of their plans to build...
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Join Us: Protect Fresno Home Care
Yesterday UHW-SEIU launched an important new website for a very important campaign: the fight to save Home Care in Fresno County. Check it out at www.protectfresnohomecare.org. The Fresno County Supervisors plan to slash funding to Home Care beginning on July...
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Press Coverage of Home Care Battle
The Obama administration has sided with California home care workers--and the press is starting to pay attention...
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Alameda Workers Tell How They Bargained a Great Contract
Alameda Hospital workers recently approved a contract that their member bargaining committee negotiated; a contract that will raise their pay 18 percent over the course of the deal. To achieve their goals, the hospital's UHW-SEIU members had to fight a...
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SEIU Vice President/UHW Trustee Eliseo Medina Testifies in Support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Eliseo Medina testified today before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security on the unified reform framework released earlier this month by Change to Win (which includes SEIU) and the AFL-CIO. "This proposal will allow millions of...
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In the News: Coverage of Fresno Home Care Cuts
The ABC 30 News Team (KFSN-TV) in Fresno took a look at the impact of Fresno's proposed cuts to home care. Click here to watch the segment online or read the transcript. UHW-SEIU workers are making their voices heard, and...
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The UHW Report: 4/27/09
- Workers in Modesto Win BIG
- Good Samaritan Workers (L.A.) Unanimous On New Contract
- Standing Up Against Sutter Layoffs
- Members Fight Home Care Cuts, and more...
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CPMC Layoffs in the News
The San Francisco Business Times reported on CPMC's (California Pacific Medical Center) plan to slash 200 jobs in order to protect corporate profits. Click here to read the whole article.
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The UHW Report: 4/20/09
- Alameda Hospital Workers Win New Contract
- UHW Trustees Report on Local Spending
- Victory for Lake Park Workers
- Daughters of Charity Bargaining Team Meets, and more...
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Providence Holy Cross Hospital Expansion Lawsuits Settled
After a long dispute, SEIU UHW and Community Advocates for Responsible Care (CARE) have settled their lawsuits against Providence Holy Cross Hospital's expansion in the San Fernando Valley on Friday, April 17. The impact of the economic crisis on the...
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Trustees Report on Local Spending in 2008
In keeping with their legal and fiduciary responsibilities, the trustees of SEIU UHW filed the LM-2 Report for Calendar Year 2008 with the U.S. Department of Labor on March 31, 2009. The report includes financial transactions of the local while it was run by the now-former officers, who were removed from office in January.
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The UHW Report: 4/14/09
- Contract Victory at Tri-City
- Nursing Home Workers Win Big at Foresight
- Temporary Restraining Order against NUHW
- SEIU UHW Members at White House Forum, and more...
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New Contract for Lake Park Workers
"Yes, we did it!" Lake Park Retirement Residence CNA and SEIU UHW Bargaining Committee member Sara Aguirre summed up their accomplishment in 4 words. Workers at Oakland's Lake Park overwhelmingly ratified a new 3 year agreement Saturday, becoming the...
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Members at Kaiser Win! NUHW Shut Out
On April 7, the National Labor Relations Board officially dismissed a petition from NUHW seeking to decertify SEIU UHW as the union representing more than 48,000 caregivers at Kaiser Permanente facilities stating that "the Feb. 26 petitions were clearly filed...
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UHW Members at White House Forum
SEIU UHW members participated in the final White House Regional Forum on Health Reform Monday, April 6, in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego and Clovis. UHW members were joined by SEIU members from other locals, Governor Schwarzenegger, Washington Governor Chris...
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Members Fight Home Care Cuts Across CA
From Sacramento to Oakland to Fresno, SEIU UHW home care workers are publicly protesting California's upcoming "trigger" budget cuts. Thursday's rally was held in front of Oakland City Hall. More than 100 Bay-area home care workers and supporters came together...
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Press Coverage of the SEIU - CNA/NNOC Agreement
Read the latest coverage of the major deal between SEIU and CNA/NNOC right here: San Francisco Chronicle Feuding Healthcare Unions Opt to Collaborate LA Times SEIU, California Nurses Association End Feud New York Times Two Unions, Once Rivals, Will Now...
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New SEIU-CNA/NNOC Agreement Will Strengthen Our Voice
SEIU and CNA/NNOC have agreed to set aside their differences and work together nationwide to make sure all registered nurses and all healthcare workers have a strong union voice.
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Bargaining Team Wins Big for SunBridge Healthcare Workers
"We didn't just hold the line -- we won BIG!" $2.18 to $2.33 per hour wage hike over life of our contract (January 1, 2009 to July 31, 2011) Includes immediate 60 cents per hour raise for everyone, retroactive...
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Trustees Meeting with Members in Kaiser and Hospital Divisions
This is your union, and as your trustees, we pledge to fight alongside you to build a transparent, democratic union that protects you, your job, and your benefits. At a time when 2 million Californians have lost jobs, it is...
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Los Angeles Healthcare Unity Rally
On Thursday, Feb. 26 -- the same day the president's budget was presented to Congress -- several hundred SEIU members from around the Los Angeles area rallied to support the president's vision to fix healthcare. The workers gathered outside SEIU...
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Sutter Amador Hospital Employees to Vote on Joining UHW
On Oct. 30, 350 hospital and clinic workers at Sutter Amador Hospital representing all healthcare classifications, including RNs, CNAs, Rad Techs, Cooks, Pharmacists, and Medical Assistants filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for an election to establish...
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