This is
embarrassing.
Last week, Dave Regan committed another one of
those fu*k-ups that’s earned SEIU-UHW
a reputation as “the gang that can’t shoot straight.”
It happened
in Los Angeles, where 230 workers at 158-bed USC Verdugo Hills Hospital voted
recently to leave SEIU-UHW and work without a union. According to press
reports, workers grew disillusioned after SEIU-UHW failed to negotiate strong
contracts or provide good representation to its members.
Dave’s
fu*k-up occurred when SEIU-UHW attempted to file a legal challenge after losing
the election. Under NLRB rules, Regan and his attorneys were required to submit
their challenge to both the NLRB and the hospital within seven days after the
vote count. SEIU-UHW prepared the legal documents and actually sent them to the
NLRB. But SEIU-UHW forgot to “cc” the hospital on the e-mail.
Consequently,
SEIU-UHW’s legal challenge was tossed out and the election results were
finalized by the NLRB, according to an article in the Glendale News-Press (Lila
Seidman, “Labor
board certifies election results disbanding union at USC hospital,” Glendale News-Press, February 19, 2019.)
Ouch.
This isn’t Regan’s
first self-inflicted wound.
In both Arizona
and Ohio, Regan famously spent
millions of dollars to circulate petitions among voters in an effort to qualify
statewide initiatives for the ballot. Unfortunately, Dave forgot to instruct his
signature-collectors to sign paperwork required by state election officials…
which resulted in both petitions being tossed out. In
Ohio alone, Regan’s blunder cost SEIU-UHW more than $4 million.
And then
there was the time that Dave reportedly
assaulted a court worker who was trying to deliver legal records to Dave’s house.
Does Dave
have more embarrassing human tricks up his sleeve?
Stay tuned.
