This week, SEIU-UHW
officials have catapulted to new heights of pathetic behavior at public hearings
held by the California Attorney General
to evaluate the proposed sale of Daughters
of Charity Health System, a chain of six hospitals in Los Angeles and the
San Francisco Bay Area.
At the hearings, SEIU-UHW is shamelessly pimping for Blue Wolf Capital Partners, a New York
private-equity firm that just happened to ink a secret backroom deal with Dave Regan.
If Blue Wolf wins the
bidding process, Regan's deal would allow it to boost its profits by
slashing the pay and benefits of SEIU-UHW’s 2,700 members by more than $100 million
a year, according to a deal signed by Regan and posted
on this blog site earlier in the week.
From every indication, Regan is highly motivated to
convince the A.G. to support his newfound private-equity "partner.” How
else can you explain the fact that SEIU-UHW’s staffers and members have turned
up at the hearings wearing "Blue Wolf" T-shirts? No joke. Check out
these pictures. Pathetic.
As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words.
And there's more.
SEIU-UHW’s rank-and-file members at the Daughters hospitals
are apparently in open rebellion against Regan's sellout deal. In fact, Regan has
so little support from Daughters workers that he's been forced to bus public-sector
homecare workers from 150 miles away wearing "Blue Wolf" shirts in a
pathetically lame effort to convince the AG that somehow "workers" support Blue
Wolf.
Unfortunately for Regan, SEIU-UHW’s own members have dropped
a host of proverbial turds into Regan's purple punch bowl.
Yesterday, an SEIU-UHW member from Daughters O'Connor
Hospital in San Jose testified that a majority of SEIU-UHW’s members at his hospital
oppose SEIU-UHW’s support for Blue Wolf. To back up his point, he then presented
the Attorney General with petitions signed by half of SEIU-UHW’s members at the
hospital… which he says were gathered in 48 hours!
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| SEIU-UHW's Dave Regan |
Today, the AG held a hearing for St. Louise Regional Hospital
in Gilroy. One of SEIU-UHW’s stewards at the hospital testified in opposition
to SEIU-UHW and presented handfuls of petitions signed by her co-workers.
During her testimony, the worker reportedly broke down and cried, saying she
had once supported SEIU-UHW “but they’re wrong about this and we employees are very
disappointed in them. Because of this, I believe the union no longer has the support of employees.”
After the steward left the hearing to go back to work, one
of Regan's hack staffers went to the mic and tried to convince the Attorney General
that the steward had been bullied by hospital officials into testifying as she
did. This reportedly prompted an AG official to say, "You gotta be kidding
me.” I guess the same hospital officials bullied hundreds of workers to sign petitions, too.
They apparently don't understand, but SEIU-UHW’s members should be
overflowing with joy and gratitude that their union's president, Dave Regan, cut a backroom deal with New York
fatcats to slash and burn their pay and benefits.
Later, when news of the SEIU-UHW staffer's deceitful testimony to the AG reached the hospital, the steward and her co-workers reacted with righteous outrage.
Needless to say, Wall Street Dave doesn't have many supporters left at the
hospital.
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| A picture from Northern Pulp, one of Blue Wolf's acquisitions. It performs "whole tree harvesting," which local residents describe as "ecocide." Blue Wolf: Bringing a bright future to a community near you! |
All in all, then, it's been quite a week so far.
SEIU staffers
in Blue Wolf T-shirts. Fake hospital workers bused in from 150 miles away. SEIU-UHW’s
members in open rebellion against Regan's backroom deal. And Regan forced
to publicly deploy his weapons of treachery and deceit against the union's own
members… even as the Attorney General looks on.
