It looks like Dave
Regan has taken his “labor-management partnerships” to an entirely new level. In fact, Regan’s own staffers are having a hard time remembering who
they’re actually supposed to be working for.
Take the case of Dominic
Mitchell.
Mitchell has been SEIU-UHW’s Field Rep at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in
Oakland, California for a couple of years. The hospital is owned by Sutter Health,
a $9 billion corporation that’s one of California’s worst anti-union companies.
Recently, SEIU-UHW’s 1,200 members were kinda surprised when
Dominic Mitchell suddenly showed up in the hospital’s Human Resources
Department… behind a desk and in a suit ! It turned out that Mitchell had taken
a job as one of the company’s Human Resources agents and is now responsible for
disciplining and firing the same employees that he’d been responsible for
protecting.
Workers are stunned. After all, Mitchell has been managing
all their grievances and negotiations with management. He knows workers' intimate personal details and vulnerabilities… and
can now use them against workers. Talk about unethical!
Check out a
leaflet (see below) that workers recently circulated about Dominic’s purple partnership
with the Boss.
Of course, this isn’t Regan’s first flirtation with Sutter's
execs. SEIU staffers Cass
Gualvez, Erica McDuffy and Carrie Cianchetti worked hand-in-hand
with Sutter’s executives to illegally fire a longtime rank-and-file worker at the same hospital, which is detailed in this judge’s 50-page
ruling.
And Regan allowed Sutter to slash workers’ health insurance and and impose an aggressive Wellness Program during contract negotiations. Tasty bets that SEIU-UHW's officials will soon be coordinating with Dominic Mitchell to implement the next stages of Regan's Wellness Program at the hospital!
Here’s workers' leaflet:
