SEIU-UHW's Mary Henagan Is Busted by the NLRB

Remember when the NLRB busted SEIU-UHW Field Reps. Arturo Castellanos and Sandra Jimenez for surveilling, interrogating and threatening one of SEIU-UHW’s own members at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center?

Well, newly released legal documents (see an out-of-court settlment below) indicate that another one of Dave Regan’s staffers has been busted at a different Kaiser hospital. It sounds like Regan’s NLRB 'rap sheet' is quickly becoming the envy of union-busting companies across the nation!

SEIU’s latest crime spree was carried out by SEIU-UHW Field Rep. Mary Henagan, who’s fondly referred to by workers as “Scary Mary.” Henagan, who’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer by any stretch of the imagination, apparently tries to compensate for her substantial “deficits” by being super loud, obnoxious and a bully.

So how did Scary Mary break the law?

On a recent workday, a rank-and-file member of SEIU-UHW showed up for her shift at Kaiser Sacramento Medical Center and was assigned to work in an outlying building. When the worker got to the building, she realized she didn’t have keys to get past the locked door, so she walked to an adjoining building to borrow keys from a co-worker.

There, the worker happened to run into “Scary Mary,” who’s the Field Rep assigned to this particular hospital. Henagan, however, didn’t try to help the SEIU-UHW member and instead made a secret phone call to Kaiser’s Human Resources officials and reported the worker as being AWOL from her job! Why? Because the worker -- just like hundreds more at the hospital -- happens to support NUHW.

Kaiser’s HR officials quickly arrived on the scene, took the worker into a vacant room, questioned her without any union representation, and then issued her “verbal coaching” as discipline.

Later on, management inadvertently revealed that Scary Mary was the one who'd actually orchestrated the entire event by dialing purple lies to HR officials.

That’s when the worker filed formal charges against Scary Mary and SEIU-UHW. The NLRB, after a lengthy investigation, announced its plans to put Scary Mary on trial in front of a judge for breaking federal labor law and violating SEIU’s “duty of fair representation” to its members.

SEIU officials realized they'd lose the trial, so they quickly negotiated an out-of-court settlement with the NLRB. The settlement forces Regan and Co. to ask their partners at Kaiser to “rescind the verbal coaching” given to the worker. SEIU-UHW is also required to post notices inside the hospital to inform Kaiser workers that SEIU-UHW will stop violating their rights.

The official notice (see below) includes statements like these to SEIU-UHW's members:

WE WILL NOT restrain or coerce any employee by reporting employee misconduct to Kaiser Permanente as a means for retaliating against any employee for supporting NUHW.

WE WILL NOT cause or attempt to cause Kaiser Permanente to investigate, discipline or otherwise discriminate against any employee for supporting NUHW.

WE WILL NOT in any like or related manner restrain or coerce you in the exercise of your rights under Section 7 of the Act.

Quite stunning, right? A so-called "labor union" that's working with the Boss to target the union's own members? Way to go, Dave!  From what Tasty can see, it sounds like Scary Mary will soon be joining SEIU-UHW Field Rep. Dominic Mitchell as a corporate HR official.
SEIU-UHW's Out-of-Court Settlement with the NLRB for Violating a Kaiser Permanente Worker's Rights 8-30-12

Dave Regan's SEIU-UHW Is Busted Again for Threatening, Bullying Kaiser Workers

As SEIU's scandal at Kaiser Vallejo Medical Center continues to unfold, Dave Regan's storm troopers have now been caught bullying and threatening more workers at Kaiser Permanente. This time it happened at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center, where SEIU-UHW's thugs were nabbed by the NLRB, according to an official legal settlement posted below.

According to the settlement, SEIU-UHW interrogated, surveilled and threatened its own union members. Here's what the document says under the section entitled "Scope of the Agreement:"

• SEIU-UHW-W engaged in surveillance and/or the impression of surveillance by photographing bargaining unit members engaged in protected activity on behalf of NUHW.
• SEIU-UHW-W threatened a bargaining unit member with discharge from employment because of the member's protected activities on behalf of NUHW
• SEIU-UHW-W coercively interrogated a bargaining unit member regarding his or her support and protected activities on behalf of NUHW. 

So what are details?

One day during shift change at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center, a number Kaiser workers were passing out NUHW leaflets to their co-workers outside the hospital. This, of course, is their right. After all, the NLRB will hold a new election at Kaiser and -- as in any election -- workers have the right to talk, debate and advocate for their choice on the ballot.

As workers handed out the leaflets to their co-workers, SEIU-UHW Field Rep. Arturo Castellanos showed up with Sandra Jimenez (another SEIU-UHW Field Rep.) and an SEIU-UHW Shop Steward named Yvonne Gurski. Apparently, Gurski is a well-known bully at the hospital.

Castellanos (also known as "super-scab") interrogated the workers who were leafleting, asking: "Where do you work?" and "Who's your supervisor?" Castellanos then threatened to use SEIU's chummy relationship with Kaiser to get one of the workers fired from her job. Next, Castellanos took out his iPhone and began videotaping and photographing the workers in an effort to intimidate them.

Of course, this is totally illegal. Federal labor law protects the rights of workers to engage in leafletting, advocacy and free speech. And it strictly prohibits thugs like Castellanos, Jimenez and Gurski from surveilling, interrogating and threatening workers' jobs.

Following the incident, workers filed a complaint with the NLRB. The federal agency conducted a lengthy investigation and recently announced that it had affirmed the workers' complaint and was preparing to put Castellanos, Jimenez, Gurski on trial in front of a judge. At this point, SEIU's Dave Regan instructed his attorneys to seek an out-of-court settlement with the NLRB rather than face a trial. The settlement (see below) was signed by SEIU-UHW's attorney, Bruce Harland.

The settlement requires SEIU-UHW to send a formal email notice to all of its members at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center about the settlement -- and to post notices on the hospital's bulletin boards and SEIU-UHW's website. In the notices, SEIU-UHW's officials commit that they will not threaten, interrogate or surveil the union's members. Tasty has pasted the exact notice below, along with the legal settlement.

So what about Castellanos, Jimenez and Gurski? Well... if SEIU and Dave Regan have any integrity whatsoever, they would immediately fire/remove these thugs from their union positions. It's simply outrageous that SEIU's Field Reps and Shop Stewards -- who're paid by the union's members to ensure that workers get fair treatment on the job -- are instead teaming up with the Boss to threaten workers' jobs.

SEIU's violence, threats and bullying are a perversion of everything a union is supposed to stand for! And it's an embarrassment to the labor movement. So... if SEIU wants to try to rescue its dirty reputation from the gutter, Regan and SEIU President Mary Kay Henry need to fire these bullies!

Here's the NLRB posting and out-of-court settlement:
SEIU-UHW's out-of-court settlement with the NLRB regarding threats, interrogation and surveillance of SEIU ...