SEIU-UHW’s
Dave Regan has fired another salvo in his war with SEIU President Mary Kay
Henry and SEIU's International Executive Board (IEB).
In January,
SEIU's IEB ordered
SEIU-UHW and SEIU Local 521 to finally carry out a six-year-old order to
transfer their long-term care workers to SEIU Local 6434.
This week, California
home care workers tell Tasty they’re receiving an SEIU-UHW "survey"
in the mail that’s designed to build opposition to Mary Kay Henry and the IEB’s
order. Here's a copy of the mailer, which says in part:
Below is a short survey about what you think nursing home, home care workers and our patients and clients need. This is our chance to shape the future of home care and healthcare in California...
How do you think your needs and your patient's/client’s needs will be better met? Choose one:
- Being united in a single, statewide healthcare union with ALL California hospital, nursing home and home care workers?
OR
- Being separated from hospital workers and put into a different union of only home care and nursing home workers?
Regan also posted an electronic version of the survey on SEIU-UHW's website at http://www.seiu-uhw.org/betterfuture,
where any member of the public can fill it out.
Regan’s "push
poll" will undoubtedly cause SEIU officials to hit the roof. In
March, the Purple Palace erupted
in anger when Diamond Dave had SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board pass a
resolution opposing the IEB’s order.
In addition to the survey, Tasty hears that Regan has assigned large numbers of SEIU-UHW
staffers to organize home care and nursing home workers to oppose Mary Kay Henry
and SEIU.
Will Regan try to use the results of the "survey" in
his public battle with Mary Kay Henry? You betcha. But even if the survey had been conducted in a
reliable fashion (which it wasn't), experience tells us you can't trust the results. Why? Because Diamond Dave loves to stuff the ballot box.
For example, Regan was famously apprehended while stuffing the ballot box in two unionization elections in Southern California at Chapman
Medical Center and HCA’s
Thousands Oaks Surgical Hospital. The NLRB documented the
ballot-box-stuffing, overturned the elections, and cited SEIU-UHW for violating
federal labor law.
Stay tuned.
