SEIU-UHW was blown out in the election despite collusion from the hospital’s management as a result of SEIU-UHW’s sweetheart deal with the California Hospital Association.
Well, an employee at Mission Hospital sent along the
following report about workers’ experience with SEIU:
The union organizers (sometimes 20+) completely took over our cafeteria every day for at least 2 weeks, sometimes with large purple union posters, while providing trays of free food, fish tacos, and stale purple cupcakes during lunch. The UNAC organizers also provided a "show" of verbal confrontations with CNA organizers in the parking lot. The entire experience was so incredibly unprofessional. Yup, they also had a purple clown in the cafeteria one day, and a purple cheerleader in the parking lot. It was shocking.
A purple clown? And purple cheerleader? Are you kidding?
Nope.
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| SEIU organizer at Mission Hospital |
It turns out that SEIU-UHW actually dressed up its
organizers as clowns and cheerleaders to, uhh, recruit support for the union.
Apparently, in Dave Regan’s mind, ER
Techs, Phlebotomists, EVS Aides, Surgical Assistants and other hospital workers
actually prefer to be treated as six-year-olds.
One hospital staffer sent this blurry photo of SEIU-UHW’s
purple clown as he paraded through the hospital.
Does anyone know the identity
of this bozo?
Of course, SEIU-UHW’s reliance on costumed child gimmicks shouldn't
surprise us. Remember… this is the same union that dressed up its organizers as
a Purple
Barney and an Easter
Bunny during earlier NLRB elections in Northern California.
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| Cass Gualvez, SEIU |
So, which staffer devised SEIU-UHW’s genius cheerleader/clown
strategy?
It reportedly was Cass
Gualvez, who is a "Staff Director" at SEIU-UHW and was also
appointed by Regan to SEIU-UHW’s "Executive Committee," the union's its
top governing body. In 2013, Gualvez was paid $140,757.
In 2009, Gualvez conspired
with executives at Alta Bates Summit
Medical Center to fire a 31-year hospital employee and union member, which was later documented in a 50-page
ruling by an NLRB Administrative Law Judge.
Gualvez, whose brain apparently approximates that of a
six-year-old, is quite clueless. In fact, she’s so clueless she thought SEIU-UHW
was headed towards a landslide election victory at Mission Hospital last month.
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| SEIU organizer at St. Louise Hospital |
Here's what an employee at Mission Hospital reports:
SEIU also had a large purple RV parked down the road. They planned to drive it to our campus parking lot for staff to gather for some sort of celebration when they won (we called it the "Barney Mobile"). SEIU was really expecting to win, but instead they had to drive it home!
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| SEIU organizer at California Pacific Medical Center in 2010 |
