It sounds like Kaiser Permanente’s hospital in Walnut Creek,
CA is not the only place where Dave Regan and Co. have been rigging elections
to put their favorite people in union positions. After Tasty posted this
piece, readers sent in more reports. Here’s one:
At Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center, SEIU-UHW rigged an election
for Lisa Cox, who last month was
busy using her Shop Steward position to unleash a thuggish strike-breaking operation
against her co-workers. Cox reportedly teamed up with Kaiser’s supervisors to
drag SEIU-UHW’s rank-and-file members into managers’ offices and then threaten
them with discipline and termination if they honored the one-day strike by Kaiser’s
21,000 workers.
So how did Cox become a Shop Steward in the first place? Was
she elected by her co-workers, as required by union rules? Not by a long shot. Cox, who’s widely disliked
by her co-workers, actually lost an election in her department even though SEIU
officials stacked the deck in her favor. They ran the election on a holiday, and didn't even announce it to workers in hopes of controlling the votes.
With Cox defeated, what did SEIU do next? They re-ran the
rigged election, but with even more rigging! SEIU held a second “election”
for Cox in the Ophthalmology Department… where Cox doesn’t even work… and which is
located in an entirely different building. Plus, SEIU never announced the
election to the Ophthalmology Department’s workers, meaning that Cox’s one vote
made up a large part of the final vote tally.
Way to go, Dave Regan! With rigged
ratification votes, loyalty
oaths, and fraudulent union elections, SEIU has become quite the Banana
Republic!
