Workers are describing the latest details of Dave Regan’s dirty deeds with a giant California hospital chain.
At Sutter Health’s Alta
Bates Summit Medical Center -- an 830-bed hospital in Oakland, California
-- workers say SEIU-UHW and the Boss have fused into one ugly Frankenstein-like
creature.
Here’s what’s happening.
Recently, the hospital announced layoffs of 359 workers. Several
unions defended their members by filing court injunctions that successfully
blocked the layoffs of their members.
But not SEIU-UHW!
Instead, Dave Regan and Co. are working
hand-in-glove with management to kick SEIU-UHW’s members out the door and onto
the unemployment line.
SEIU-UHW’s members are receiving telephone calls from
hospital HR officials who say their jobs have been eliminated. The HR officials
then inform them they have just 15 minutes to decide whether to accept a
layoff package or to try to make a bid for another position at the hospital.
When workers say "I need time to talk to my Union
Rep," the HR official responds, "Your Union Rep is sitting right here." The stunned workers listen as HR hands the phone to SEIU-UHW Union Rep Pam Stevenson.
WTF? It turns out that Stevenson is camped out in an HR conference
room with the Boss, who’s speed-dialing workers to kick them to the curb.
In one case, Stevenson and her HR pals phoned an SEIU-UHW member
who's at home recuperating from an on-the-job injury. They gave her just brief moments to decide the fate of her sole means of economic support.
When workers confront SEIU-UHW officials and tell them,
"We have a contract! Why are you doing this to us?," SEIU simply says
“It is what it is."
Unfortunately, Regan's latest purple atrocities are just par
for the course.
In 2012, "Wall Street" Dave cut a deal with Sutter that allowed the
hospital to
subcontract the jobs of nearly 10% of the union's members even though workers’
contract strictly prohibited the hospital from subcontracting their jobs.
During bargaining, Regan signaled his willingness to roll
over for the Boss by stating: “We can work with employers like Sutter Health.”
Observers speculate that Regan is working overtime to help his buddy, Sutter’s
CEO Pat Fry, because Fry plays a top
role at the California
Hospital Association.
As for SEIU-UHW Union Rep Pam "The Terminator" Stevenson, she's apparently chosen the same career
path as Dominic
Mitchell, the former SEIU-UHW Union Rep at Alta Bates Summit Medical
Center who’s now one of Sutter’s HR officials.
Like Tasty said... SEIU-UHW and the Boss have become one ugly, purple Frankenstein.
