Today, technical workers at Mercy Health Partner's Hackley
Hospital in Muskegon joined NUHW in a blow-out election victory over
SEIU. The final tally of the NLRB election was 65 (NUHW), 9 (SEIU) and 3 (No
Union). A total of 92 workers were eligible to vote in the election.
The technical workers first asked the NLRB to hold an
election nine months ago, but SEIU officials worked
overtime to block and stall the election while they ran rigged
contract-ratification votes. Meanwhile, Dave
Regan flew Amado
David and other California staffers to Michigan to beg workers to stay in
SEIU.
The Hackley caregivers are the second group of Michigan
workers to join NUHW in recent months. In September, workers at Luther Manor
Nursing Home in Saginaw voted
by a two-to-one margin to join NUHW.
SEIU's local union in Michigan is well-known for its corruption
and ineffectiveness. In 2008, Rickman
Jackson was removed as President of SEIU Healthcare Michigan after
stealing more than $30,000 from SEIU members. SEIU’s top officials promptly
appointed him to a $130,000-a-year staff position inside the Purple Palace.
Jackson’s replacement in Michigan, Marge
Faville, is well known for nepotism and corruption… including a
$160,000-a-year salary, a union-paid SUV and a union-paid apartment -- despite the
fact that most of the union’s members earn only $8 an hour.
Faville is reportedly so busy stuffing wads of cash into her
pockets that she's forgotten to have SEIU staffers actually respond to
members’ calls for help or to make sure employers are actually honoring their
union contracts.
Sounds like NUHW members will be getting more calls from
Michigan workers! Congratulations, Hackley workers!
