Last month,
the NLRB issued a 55-page decision
that confirmed the results of an
NLRB election conducted last year in which more than 700 workers at a Northern
California hospital voted to dump SEIU-UHW
and join NUHW.
The 55-page
decision concludes a year-long investigation into legal challenges filed by SEIU-UHW
after the March 2014 election at Seton Medical
Center, located just south of San Francisco.
The outcome
of the investigation?
Last month, the NLRB threw out all of SEIU-UHW's legal challenges, stating the following:
“…none of the Intervenor's [SEIU-UHW’s] objections raises a substantial or material issue of fact or law that would warrant a hearing in this matter.” (p. 54)
The NLRB
also called for the election results to be honored by certifying NUHW as the
workers' union.
Instead, SEIU-UHW
appealed the NLRB's decision to the agency's Washington DC headquarters in an
effort to frustrate and delay workers' election decision.
Meanwhile, at Seton
Medical Center, SEIU-UHW's name is usually mentioned amidst a string of
four-letter words and colorful expletives, say workers. Not only has SEIU-UHW
refused to accept workers' election results, it recently began threatening
retaliation against workers for not paying dues to SEIU-UHW -- even though
workers voted more than a year ago to dump SEIU-UHW.
Back in
2012, SEIU-UHW's President Dave Regan
gave
away workers' defined-benefit pension plan, cut their health benefits, and
implemented an intrusive Wellness Program… and then literally forced the cuts
down workers’ throats of by conducting a ‘ramrod’ ratification vote that violated
SEIU's constitution.
It's no wonder, then, that workers say SEIU and Diamond Dave would rank below convicted murderer/cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer in a popularity poll among workers.
