Here’s more news from the NLRB election at Seton Medical Center, where on March 19th approximately 700 workers voted
to dump SEIU-UHW and join NUHW.
According to Tasty’s sources, SEIU-UHW outspent NUHW by an
estimated ten-to-one margin… but still lost!
Dave Regan
assigned dozens of staff to chase down workers inside the hospital and at their
homes, where workers faced a steady onslaught of door knockers, robo calls, purple
mail pieces, and email blasts.
As the election approached, workers at one hospital facility ventured outside to find Regan’s massive purple RV plunked down on
the hospital’s property and blocking traffic.
SEIU’s main campaign tools were the usual: fear, threats and
misinformation. But SEIU officials -- known as the masters of mendacity -- were sometimes so
over-reaching in their lies, they became outright comical. For example, SEIU
tried to tell workers they'd lose their pension if they voted for NUHW -- even
though Regan
had already given away workers' defined-benefit benefit pension two years
ago!
Whoops!!
Workers say that another key to the election was SEIU’s massive
"trust deficit" among workers. In 2012, Regan forced giant benefit cuts down
the throats of workers by holding a
ramrod ratification vote that gave workers just 9 hours advance notice before the
voting began on a Sunday morning. When workers filed formal
protests noting that the rushed vote violated SEIU’s own constitution, SEIU’s
Dave Regan and Mary Kay Henry simply
ignored the workers and SEIU's own constitution.
Regan, in a laughable effort to overcome the distrust, handed
out notarized “Guarantees" to convince the workers they’d somehow be in a whole
world of hurt if they voted for NUHW. (See below.)
So how did workers respond?
Tasty hears they openly mocked
Regan by stripping the yellow stars from his notarized forms and pasting them
on their uniforms like so many sheriff’s badges.
Hey Dave, sounds like there are a whole lotta new sheriffs in town!
