Last Friday, workers at a nursing home in the San Francisco
Bay Area voted unanimously to join NUHW!
This latest win caps a string of five election victories for
NUHW in the past month. Three of the elections were by non-union workers
at Kindred Healthcare and Sutter Health and two were among
workers who
decertified SEIU-UHW to join NUHW.
Friday’s election at a nursing home in San Rafael offers
another startling chapter in the tale of fraud and deception that SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan has brought to California.
Here’s what happened.
Last year, SEIU-UHW’s Myriam Escamilla conducted secret negotiations with the workers’ boss… and then signed
a full contract without ever talking to the workers!
The story gets worse.
Workers heard some buzz from their supervisors about the
negotiations, so they repeatedly asked SEIU-UHW: “Are you negotiating with our
boss?”
Escamilla -- who now directs SEIU-UHW's Hospital Division -- boldly lied to workers, telling them “No.” But workers soon
discovered that SEIU-UHW had allowed the Boss to slash their benefits, working
hours, and other conditions.
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| Myriam Escamilla |
After repeatedly confronting Escamilla, workers forced her
to show them the secret agreement. Workers then forced
Escamilla to put it to a vote of the membership. Workers voted
it down unanimously! And then filed a petition to decertify SEIU-UHW and join
NUHW!
In typical fashion, SEIU-UHW launched its stall-and-delay tactics at the
NLRB, which held up the election for more than half a year.
But as last Friday’s
election finally drew near, SEIU-UHW officials acknowledged they had zero
support among the workers… So, just 48 hours before the election, SEIU-UHW
formally withdrew from the election and workers voted unanimously to join NUHW.
Congrats to the workers for prevailing in their lengthy
fight to free themselves from the purple tentacles!
