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| Sacramento County Superior Court |
This
afternoon, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge confirmed an arbitrator’s June
6th decision that orders SEIU-UHW’s
Dave Regan to withdraw a statewide
ballot initiative by June 30 or face tens of millions of dollars in fines,
according to court records and sources who attended the hearing.
Judge David
Brown announced his decision at the end of a hearing during which
attorneys from SEIU-UHW and the California
Hospital Association (CHA) argued their positions.
Yesterday, the
judge issued a tentative ruling on the matter, according to the Los Angeles Times (John Myers, “Sacramento
Judge Moves to Cancel a November Ballot Initiative Limiting Salaries of
Hospital CEOs,” June 23, 2016).
SEIU-UHW’s
spokesperson Steve Trossman told the Times
that SEIU-UHW “will decide next week whether to appeal the judge's ruling or
allow the initiative to be scrapped.”
The Superior
Court judge’s ruling represents a massive defeat for Regan.
In 2014, Regan
leapt into bed with hospital CEOs to forge a secret deal that sold
out workers, patients, and the public. Regan triumphantly called the
sell-out deal a “visionary” agreement that would transform U.S. labor
relations and the healthcare industry. Yeah
right.
By late
2015, Regan found himself with nothing to show for his sordid act of lovemaking
with the fatcat CEOs.
So, in
November of 2015, Regan decided to file a statewide ballot initiative targetING his CEO pals and their multi-million-dollar salaries. Unfortunately,
Regan forgot about the far-reaching gag
clause that he’d written and signed… and which specifically blocks him from
filing such a ballot initiative.
Doh!
Regan must
now carefully contemplate his next chess move after flawlessly steering
SEIU-UHW into a tight-ass corner with no way out.
Thanks to Regan, SEIU-UHW’s
members are trapped in a no-win situation where they will watch as somewhere
between $5 million and $50 million of their dues money is unceremoniously
flushed down the toilet.
Way to go,
Dave!
Stay tuned
for Dave’s next Einstein move.
