This just in. The NLRB finished counting the ballots from
today’s election at Luther Manor Nursing Home and… workers voted by more than a
two-to-one margin to leave SEIU and join NUHW! The final tally was 47 (NUHW),
22 (SEIU), 1 (No Union) and 4 challenged ballots.
Sounds like it’s been quite a week for Luther Manor workers.
Last weekend, SEIU tried to lure workers to a barbeque where SEIU promised to
raffle off a flat-screen TV. Then, SEIU deployed 15 organizers who knocked on
workers’ doors and pushed a fear campaign to try to convince them to stay in
SEIU. This morning, when workers arrived at work, they found 8 purple-shirted SEIU
organizers standing on the corner near the nursing home trying to offer workers
free coffee and donuts.
In the end, all of SEIU’s tricks, bribes and threats weren’t
enough to overcome workers who stood strong through repeated rounds of SEIU’s hookin’
& crookin’ … from backroom deals with the boss … to ballot-box
stuffing … to SEIU’s forced
re-votes of already-rejected contract deals.
The workers are NUHW’s first members in Michigan. Although not for long. Workers at CHP’s
Hackley Hospital are waiting for the NLRB to cut through SEIU’s stalling
tactics so they can have their vote. Congrats, Luther Manor workers!!
