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Tasty recently
reported that SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan
has launched a witch hunt against a worker at Kaiser Permanente who challenged Regan during SEIU-UHW’s last
internal election.
In July, Regan sent a formal notice to Sophia
Sims announcing that an “SEIU Trial Body” would try her on charges that
she wore a red t-shirt and supported NUHW during the NLRB’s recent election for
45,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente.
There’s no word yet on whether Dave and his partner in
crime, Stan
Lyles, will conduct ‘show trials’ for the more than 13,000 other
workers who also supported NUHW in the election.
So by singling out Sophia Sims, it’s clear that Regan is trying
to knock her out as a challenger in SEIU-UHW’s upcoming elections. Regan’s
kangaroo court will undoubtedly find that Sophia Sims was “disloyal” to the
Purple Palace because she exercised her federal right to back one of the two
options on the government’s ballot. (That’s SEIU-styled democracy for you.) And Regan
will then use the verdict to declare Sims ineligible to run for office.
According to Tasty’s sources, Regan is super nervous about facing
an election challenge because more than 13,000 Kaiser workers voted against SEIU-UHW in
the recent NLRB election. Presumably, these workers would love to dump Dave and
his disastrous reign of failed representation, bullying, and back-door deals
with bosses.
Interestingly, Tasty has learned that Dave’s election
paranoia has some real roots in reality. Apparently, a “Dump Dave” campaign is being
discussed in hospitals across California.
Rumor has it that several well-regarded union members are mulling over
the idea of assembling a slate of candidates to run against Regan in elections
scheduled for next spring.
Could this really succeed?
Tasty’s sources say:
“HELL YES.” They say there’s deep-seated
anger at Regan among a big part of the union’s membership. And it doesn’t take
a rocket scientist to figure out why.
In fact, the 13,000+ workers who voted for NUHW in the
recent Kaiser election are a big base of support… not to mention the thousands
of workers at many other companies across the state. And Tasty’s sources point
to Regan’s huge vulnerability. In SEIU-UHW’s last internal elections, Regan got
only 7,000 votes out of 140,000 eligible voters.
One member put it this way:
“We may be stuck in SEIU right now, but why should we be stuck with a
sell-out asshole like Dave Regan.”
Hmmm … “Sounds like the “Dump Dave” campaign is off to a
rousing start!
