Remember Dave Regan's dirty
deal with California’s hospital industry to undercut the state’s
nurse-to-patient staffing law?
Well here's the latest development: a leaflet announcing
that the California Nurses Association beat back "the bid by SEIU-UHW head
Dave Regan and the California Hospital Association (CHA)" to roll back the
safe-staffing legislation.
For those who don’t know it, the CHA is the Chamber of
Commerce for the state’s hospital industry and is run by the CEOs from
multi-billion-dollar corporations like HCA, Tenet Healthcare, Kaiser
Permanente, Sutter Health, Dignity Health, etc.
Regan -- in addition to
partnering with hospital corporations to slash workers’ benefits -- has partnered with the CHA to undermine patient and worker safety legislation. Here’s how the leaflet from the California Nurses
Association puts it:
Who is Regan’s new partner? The CHA lobbies for the state’s biggest hospital employers to eliminate meals, breaks, and other workplace protections, cut wages and other standards for hospital workers, and to silence the voice of unions.
And here’s another excerpt from the leaflet:
Regan is undermining standards for RNs and other staff with his advocacy for hospital profits. He has signed contract concessions in healthcare coverage and pensions that harm nurses seeking to defend safe working conditions and living standards for their colleagues and families.
Here’s the full leaflet about Regan's dirty deal, which prompted one of SEIU's own officials to famously write: "No idea what Dave was thinking."
