Sources: Dave Regan Injured a California Lawmaker during Barroom Fight

SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan sent a California legislator to the hospital after knocking him down during Regan’s allegedly drunken attack on an unidentified patron of Sacramento restaurant and bar, according to sources.

SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan

The legislator, Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-West Los Angeles), is considering taking legal action against Regan, say sources. He was at the restaurant to attend an event organized by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus when he was inadvertently injured by Regan.

Here’s what happened, say Tasty’s sources:

Earlier this month, Regan attended an event sponsored by “California Forward” at Lucca Restaurant and Bar, just two blocks from the state capitol.

Regan serves on the board of “California Forward,” which describes itself as a “bipartisan leadership council” that articulates “a vision for governance reforms to break the partisan gridlock and fortify fiscal management.” Other board members include Duf Sundheim (the former Chairman of the California Republican Party) and Wade Rose (Vice President of Government Relations at Dignity Health).

During the event, Regan reportedly got drunk and began arguing with an unknown patron. (Apparently, this was Dave’s method of ‘bridging the partisan divide.’) While attempting to punch the patron, Regan instead knocked Assemblymember Bloom to the floor, who was injured and reportedly transported to a local hospital.

Assemblymember Bloom happened to be at the restaurant attending a separate event sponsored by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus. He’s one of 16 legislators who comprise the caucus.

According to Tasty’s sources, California’s capital is now abuzz with reports about Regan’s reportedly drunken attack at Lucca and the injuries sustained by Bloom. 

As readers know, Regan is shadowed by a long trail of allegations, arrests, restraining orders and lawsuits related to physical assault, threats and violence.

In the most recent incident known to Tasty, in 2016 Regan allegedly attacked a process server attempting to deliver legal documents from the California Hospital Association to Regan’s home in Kensington, Calif. The process server later documented Regan’s assault in court records and in photographs of his injuries. He wrote a description of the assault submitted to the court, which reads in part:

"Mr. Regan kept hitting me in the head with his fist… I thought I was going to die."

During a police investigation, Regan attempted to intimidate an investigating police officer, according to CBS News. The incident resulted in a criminal complaint against Regan that was referred to the District Attorney. Ragin’ Dave Regan was also subject to a court-ordered restraining order.

In 2008, Regan led busloads of SEIU staffers and supporters in an attack against a national conference held by "Labor Notes," a network of union activists seeking to democratize and reform US labor unions.

Regan's 2008 assaults on Labor Notes Conference

Regan's troops violently forced their way into the conference in Dearborn, Michigan, where they reportedly punched, kicked and knocked participants to the floor. One female conference attendee was sent to the hospital with injuries to her head and one of the members of Regan's union at the time, SEIU 1199 West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, died during Regan's assault from a heart attack.

John Sweeney (then President of the AFL-CIO) denounced Regan's attack on the conference, stating: "There is no justification -- none -- for the violent attack orchestrated by SEIU," according to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

In 2011, Regan was sued for allegedly violating two civil rights laws by carrying out a plan of assault, battery, intimidation, threat and coercion in an effort to silence SEIU-UHW’s critics. Later, Regan reportedly settled the lawsuit out of court.

During a 2009 election among homecare workers in Fresno County, SEIU staffers reportedly threatened immigrant home care workers with deportation unless they voted for SEIU-UHW, according to TV news coverage and video-taped testimonials of workers and SEIU staff.

During NLRB elections at Kaiser Permanente in 2010, SEIU-UHW employed a "World War III" strategy designed to intimidate its members by employing, for example, violent "shout downs" and intimidation tactics against union members.

In one infamous incident inside a hospital cafeteria, SEIU-UHW staffer Tiffany Ford issued death threats against Kaiser employees… for which a Los Angeles Superior Court judge imposed a restraining order against her.

Another SEIU-UHW staffer, Liz Castillo, became a YouTube sensation (90,000 views) for her violent assault in a hospital cafeteria captured on videotape.

SEIU-UHW -- including staffer Angela Hewett -- even threatened and intimidated 80-year-old labor legend Dolores Huerta, who co-founded of the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez. In one incident, SEIU-UHW representatives shamefully screamed at Ms. Huerta to "go back to the fields."

In 1995, Regan was arrested by police in Ohio for disorderly conduct, according to CBS News.

Regan, in addition to serving as the President of SEIU-UHW, is also a Vice President of SEIU and serves on its DC-based International Executive Board headed by SEIU President Mary Kay Henry.

Here's the 2016 CBS news clip reporting on Regan's assault on a process server at his home.

Breaking: SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan Reportedly Arrested after Breaking the Arm of Hospital Association's Process Server

SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan

Sources report that SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan was arrested after breaking the arm of a process server who served legal documents, authored by the California Hospital Association (CHA), on Regan at his home in Kensington, California.

According to a reliable source, the Kensington Police Department will soon forward Regan's arrest records to the District Attorney for possible criminal prosecution.

Four sources have corroborated the incident. Here's what they say.

The process server reportedly attempted to serve the legal documents when Regan answered his front door on Beloit Avenue.

Regan, rather than accept the documents, violently pushed the process server down the stairs, breaking his arm. When the police arrived at the scene, say sources, Regan got into an altercation with the police and was arrested.

According to court records, the CHA recently served a variety of legal motions on SEIU-UHW officials in response to Regan’s November 2015 lawsuit against the CHA.

On January 25, for example, a CHA process server delivered legal motions to SEIU-UHW's attorney, Eduardo Roy of Prometheus Partners, at the firm's a law firm in San Francisco. Those documents sought the court's permission for the CHA to formally intervene in Regan's lawsuit.

On January 26, the CHA filed its own lawsuit against SEIU-UHW alleging that Regan violated a gag clause contained in his secret partnership deal with CHA officials.

For those familiar with Dave Regan’s history, the reports of his arm-breaking assault will not be surprising. Regan reportedly has a history of violent encounters, including fistfights at SEIU events, some of which were reportedly fueled by alcohol.

In 2008, Regan led busloads of SEIU staffers and supporters in an attack against a national conference held by "Labor Notes," a network of union activists seeking to democratize and reform US labor unions. Regan's troops violently forced their way into the conference in Dearborn, Michigan, where they reportedly punched, kicked and knocked participants to the floor.

Regan's troops assaulting the Labor Notes conference: 2008

One female conference attendee was sent to the hospital with cuts and other injuries to her head.

Tragically, one of the members of Regan's union at the time, SEIU 1199 West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, died during Regan's assault from a heart attack.

John Sweeney (then President of the AFL-CIO) denounced Regan's attack on the conference, stating: "There is no justification -- none -- for the violent attack orchestrated by SEIU," according to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

When Regan parachuted into California in 2009, sources say he schooled SEIU-UHW's staff in his "old school ways," including the use of threats and intimidation against the union's members and its critics.

During a 2009 election among homecare workers in Fresno County, SEIU staffers reportedly threatened immigrant home care workers with deportation unless they voted for SEIU-UHW, according to TV news coverage and video-taped testimonials of workers and SEIU staff.

During NLRB elections at Kaiser Permanente, SEIU-UHW employed a "World War III" strategy designed to intimidate its members by employing, for example, violent "shout downs" against union members.

In one infamous incident inside a hospital cafeteria, SEIU-UHW staffer Tiffany Ford issued death threats against Kaiser employees… for which a Los Angeles Superior Court judge imposed a restraining order on her.

Another SEIU-UHW staffer, Liz Castillo, became a YouTube sensation (88,000 views) for her violent assault in a hospital cafeteria captured on videotape.

SEIU-UHW -- including staffer Angela Hewett -- even threatened and intimidated 80-year-old labor legend Dolores Huerta, who co-founded of the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez. In one incident, SEIU-UHW representatives shamefully screamed at Ms. Huerta to "go back to the fields."

All of which raises important questions:

Why did SEIU officials -- including Andy Stern and Mary Kay Henry -- install a man with a history of violence to head a union of healthcare workers in California?

And why have Henry and SEIU's International Executive Board allowed Regan to remain in his seat atop one of SEIU's largest local unions in the nation despite his repeated acts of intimidation and violence -- including his latest assault against a processor, who good just as easily be a union member?

Are SEIU presidents and officers permitted to break the arms of court workers without being held accountable?

Stay tuned.

Where Is She Now…? SEIU’s Angela Hewett

SEIU's Hewett inside Kaiser cafeteria

When readers last sent news of her, Angela Hewett had quit her job at SEIU-UHW and taken a position as the Organizing Director at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

In an earlier post, Tasty described Hewett’s dramatic makeover. 

At SEIU-UHW, Hewett was best known for thuggery. Under Dave Regan’s guidance, she instructed SEIU-UHW’s stewards to turn Kaiser Permanente’s hospitals into “World War III” battlegrounds to try to stop workers from discussing their choices in an NLRB election between SEIU-UHW and NUHW.

Later, Hewett was captured on film as she screamed and beat her fists on tables inside the cafeteria at Kaiser Baldwin Park Medical Center in Los Angeles. Hewett was trying to stop 82-year-old labor legend Dolores Huerta, a co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez, from talking to workers inside the hospital’s cafeteria filled with patients, family members and off-duty workers.

Well… it looks like Hewett’s job at the AAUP hasn’t turned out so well. Just months after she took the professorial job, Hewett is no longer an employee.

Tasty doesn’t have any details on Hewett’s departure… although he speculates that her Regan-inspired fist-pounding might have rubbed some of the professors the wrong way. Who would've guessed!

Angela Hewett during a quieter moment at the AAUP

Where Is She Now? SEIU's Angela Hewett

Readers may remember SEIU staffer Angela Hewett for her infamous thuggery during the giant NLRB election at Kaiser Permanente in 2010.

In the run-up to the election, Hewett implemented SEIU-UHW’s plan to turn Kaiser’s hospitals into “World War III” battlegrounds to prevent hospital workers from discussing their choices in the government-run election. This article describes how Hewett instructed dozens of SEIU-UHW’s shop stewards -- while they were at a day-long, Kaiser-paid meeting -- to launch SEIU’s “WWIII” strategy at the request of SEIU’s Dave Regan.

Next, Hewett was famously captured on film as she screamed and beat her fists on tables inside the cafeteria at Kaiser Baldwin Park Medical Center in Los Angeles. Check out this 4-minute video -- Hewitt appears at 2 min and 30 seconds. 

So why was Angela disrupting a cafeteria filled with patients, their family members, and employees?

She and a bunch of SEIU’s thugs were trying to stop employees from talking with 82-year-old labor legend Dolores Huerta during their lunch break. Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez, had come to the facility to talk about the NLRB election at the request of NUHW supporters.

While Hewett was beating her fists on tables, an SEIU-UHW organizer whom Hewett supervised -- Tiffany Ford -- threatened to kill two hospital employees because they supported NUHW. Way to go, SEIU.  Days later, two Superior Court judges issued restraining orders against Ford because of her death threats.

So where’s Hewett now?

Well, she abandoned the purple ship… and landed a job at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as the union’s organizing director.  WTF? Wonder what the professors will think when they learn that Hewett favors intimidation over free discussion and debate. Democracy much, Angela??

Hmm… and if Angela was trying to turn hospitals into WWIII battlegrounds, wonder what her plan is for universities? Sounds like the profs ought to invest in some body armor. 

PS. Here’s a photo of a sensitive-looking Angela Hewett in her new job at the AAUP. Notice the color of her lanyard?

Three SEIU-UHW Shop Stewards Are Suspended for Threats, Harassment and Violence at Kaiser Permanente

Three of SEIU-UHW's shop stewards were suspended from their jobs at a Kaiser hospital in Northern California after harassing, threatening and assaulting rank-and-file workers and an NUHW staffer, according to sources.

So far, the three stewards -- Jennie Edney, Ella Henderson and Tina Anderson -- have been out of work for two weeks while investigations continue at Kaiser Vallejo Medical Center.

Apparently, Kaiser officials were dragging their feet on the investigation until a federal agency launched its own inquiry into SEIU-UHW's use of threats and assaults against its own members. That's when Kaiser officials finally decided they had to make a show of enforcing the rules against their Purple Partners. Sources tell Tasty that the three stewards will likely be terminated. Others may follow.

So who else is involved in the threats and violence?  Apparently, SEIU-UHW Contract Specialist Ollie Anderson and Field Rep. Justine Fout are "neck deep" in the scandal. And nearly two dozen other SEIU-UHW shop stewards reportedly participated in one of the violent incidents.

Of course, SEIU-UHW's use of threats and violence against its members is not new. SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan reportedly tells staffers and shop stewards to use threats, "shout downs," harassment, etc against workers who happen to disagree with SEIU and Regan.

Last month, the California Public Employment Relations Board issued a complaint against SEIU-UHW for threatening and assaulting homecare workers during a union election in Fresno, California.

And in 2010, three separate Superior Court judges issued restraining orders against SEIU-UHW Field Rep. Tiffany Ford after she threatened to kill a Kaiser employee inside a Kaiser hospital.

Labor legend Dolores Huerta described her experiences with SEIU's tactics in this video, which includes footage of SEIU-UHW staffer Angela Hewett beating her fists on tables inside a Kaiser cafeteria.

Stay tuned for more developments. Tasty hears that the three suspended stewards are renowned for bullying their co-workers.

SEIU Adds Zumba - and Invokes Cesar Chavez - in Latest Wellness Push

Tasty hears that SEIU’s Dave Regan and John August are raving about their recent “wellness strike” (aka flash mob)... even as Kaiser executives attempt to slash workers' health benefits.

Last Wednesday, John August (the Chief Negotiator for the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions) published this article entitled “100,000-Member Union Coalition 'Strikes' at Major Health Care Foes: Obesity and Chronic Disease.” It includes inspiring passages like these:

And whoever thinks unions haven’t yet entered the 21st century need only take a look at this new campaign to understand that they are quite mistaken.

To improve our own health, union members will organize mass walking campaigns, participate in Kaiser Permanente’s online health assessment tool which has been shown to improve health; and work in worker co-led unit based teams to improve healthy eating and healthy work practices like walking meetings, open stairwells, and safe walking paths.

Hey John, Tasty realizes you're a big fan of wellness and "Let's get healthy." But don't you think it's gonna be devastating to workers' HEALTH if Kaiser effectively strips HEALTH INSURANCE from tens of thousands of part-time workers and their children by boosting their monthly premiums from $0 to $700 a month?

Meanwhile, last Friday, SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan unveiled his latest effort to promote Kaiser’s wellness program: Zumba classes!  Check out this post on SEIU-UHW’s website (click on the image to enlarge):

That’s right! Zumba has now joined other cutting-edge SEIU tactics like “team salad days,” “walking meetings,” and “mass walking campaigns.”

BTW, did you notice how SEIU-UHW is now "celebrating Cesar Chavez day"?  Readers might be a tad bit skeptical about SEIU’s newfound respect for Cesar Chavez and farmworkers. During the Kaiser election in 2010, SEIU-UHW staffers actually attacked and insulted Dolores Huerta, the 81-year-old legendary labor leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. 

When Dolores visited several Kaiser hospitals to meet with workers, she was surrounded by SEIU organizers who told her to “Go back to the fields.” Check out this video, which captures purple-shirted SEIU staffers and supporters telling her to go back to the fields.

Here's a second video, where Dolores describes her experiences with SEIU organizers trying to pick a fight with her and telling her to "Go back to the fields:"

SEIU's YouTube Star Is Back!

Remember this video of SEIU staffer Liz Castillo as she bullies workers and then smashes a camera to the floor inside the cafeteria of a California hospital? The video went viral on YouTube, where it's now been viewed 72,000 times. Castillo can be heard shouting at an SEIU-UHW member dressed in scrubs and then saying, "Shut the f*ck up, you f*cking asshole" as she prepares to backhand a seated observer.

When Castillo's purple-shirted assault became a YouTube phenomenon, SEIU officials canned Castillo in hopes of managing the fallout from SEIU's other attacks... like the death threats against workers at Kaiser Permanente and SEIU's outrageous attacks against Dolores Huerta, the 80-year-old co-founder of the United Farm Workers along with Cesar Chavez.

So what's Castillo up to these days? Has she landed a career on a Detroit roller derby team? Well... kind of. A reader reports that she's back at SEIU-UHW, where her bullyboy exploits caught the eye of Dave Regan, who reportedly instructs SEIU staffers to intimidate workers who criticize SEIU. Here's the reader's report:

Just in case you didn't know, Liz Castillo is back working with UHW- she was seen in the smoking area!!! (which she visits 20X a day) early this week. She was telling the group of smokers that she is back! as an organizer!!! God Help Us!!! 

More..... this week the craziest woman in UHW Flannery Hauck (crazier than Liz) was seen lecturing! torturing a group of organizer going over a rap for a campaign she is leading "Lets Get Healthy California" . I felt sorry for those organizers in the second floor.... welcome to the "Flannery concentration camp"

Well, California workers, look for Liz in a hospital near you. Tasty hears she'll soon be playing an integral role in Regan's "Let's Get Healthy, California!" campaign by telling workers to "Shut the f*ck up and fill out the f*cking survey." Way to go, SEIU!

The Truth Ruins Mary Kay Henry’s Feature Article in the NY Times

Tasty can imagine the scene… An excited SEIU President Mary Kay Henry grips her steaming soy latte and spreads out the Sunday edition of the New York Times so she can read a lengthy article that’s supposed to feature a sparkling profile of her. Super peachy keen!

Her eyes quickly scan the article and come to a sudden stop. Her jaw drops. WTF! The truth has finally caught up to her… like a dog that’s been chasing her for two years. And it catches Mary Kay right in the middle of her feature story in the New York Times!

And ya know what? This episode isn’t a figment of Tasty’s imagination. It actually took place on Sunday, when Mary Kay Henry’s airbrushed image was forced to confront just a little piece of the truth about the thuggish tactics she’s unleashed on SEIU’s members... Like the time she called the cops on an SEIU-UHW member simply because he wanted to attend his own union’s steward council meeting. Fortunately, the police refused to arrest the worker for the crime of “Attempting to Attend a Union Meeting.”

Here’s how the New York Times described it, ever so briefly, on Sunday:

“It got ugly, and Mary Kay was part of that episode,” said Mr. Brenner, the Labor Notes editor, and another Stern critic. At one union meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif., Ms. Henry called police to try and eject a dissident union member, but the officers left without doing so, Mr. Early wrote in “The Civil Wars.”

Here’s what happened that day.

Tasty is hoping the reporter will describe more of MKH’s infamous episodes… like the time when she locked an elected bargaining committee of rank-and-file nursing home workers out of their own contract negotiations so that SEIU officials could ink a sell-out contract with their boss. During this episode in Oakland, California, the media covered the locked-out workers who chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho, Mary Kay has got to go.”

Well, Tasty hears that Mary Kay better watch out cuz that dog named “Truth” is gonna be chomping on her heels for a long time to come!

P.S. Check out this article by author Steve Early in The Nation about workers' battle with Kaiser Permanente. The article includes a revealing quote from Kaiser spokesperson John Nelson, who hints at SEIU’s back-room deal with Kaiser to slash workers’ pensions and health benefits. In the article, Nelson says Kaiser is merely trying “to find ways to contain costs in partnership with our unions. Both management and labor have a stake in the financial challenges we face and meeting rising health care costs and costs of pension benefits.”  Look out, Kaiser workers! Tasty smells a giant purple rat!