NUHW keeps
on growing. Earlier this week, nearly 500 workers at two California hospitals voted
to join NUHW. By Tasty’s tally, NUHW has won ten NLRB elections this
year and added almost 2,000 new members.
This week, a
unit of 420 non-union workers at Queen
of the Valley Hospital in Napa, Calif. voted to join NUHW despite the company’s
aggressive anti-union campaign. The hospital is owned by Providence St. Joseph Health, one of the US’s largest hospital corporations.
Here are the vote totals:
202 (NUHW),
132 (No Union), 33 (Challenged Ballots), and 12 (Void Ballots)
Meanwhile,
at USC Norris Cancer Center in Los
Angeles, a unit of 45 workers employed by subcontracting giant Sodexo voted to decertify SEIU United Service Workers West and
join NUHW. Earlier this year, NUHW’s 900 members at USC Keck Medical Center used
strikes to win a break-through contract that’s apparently got the attention of
other USC workers.
Here are the
vote totals from this week’s election:
31 (NUHW),
10 (SEIU USWW), 0 (No Union)
Meanwhile, SEIU-UHW is flailing.
Dave Regan
has spent more than $30 million on a half-baked (and extremely unsuccessful)
scheme to lure the California Hospital
Association into a secret partnership that, according to Regan, would add 60,000
members to SEIU-UHW’s membership rolls. Under Regan’s scheme, however, all of SEIU-UHW’s
new members would have been banned from striking and forced into pre-negotiated
labor contracts with stripped-down wages and benefits.
So far, Dave’s
awesome scheme has produced (drumroll please) fewer than 70 new members.
Meanwhile, hundreds
of Regan’s existing members are ditching SEIU-UHW, according to NLRB records.
Last week, 250 workers at College
Hospital Cerritos in Los Angeles bolted
SEIU-UHW after Regan’s staff reportedly failed to provide them basic support.
Earlier, a
unit of professional staff (including clinical lab scientists, social workers,
radiation therapists, nuclear medicine technologists, etc.) at Dignity Health’s Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles left
SEIU-UHW.
