Yesterday,
250 staffers at UCSF Benioff Children’s
Hospital in Oakland, California voted overwhelmingly to join NUHW. Here are
the results from the NLRB election:
150 (NUHW),
38 (No Union), and 30 (Challenged Ballots).
NUHW’s new
members include psychologists, medical social workers, licensed clinical social
workers, dietitians, pharmacists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists,
and others.
The election
continues NUHW’s winning streak. The red union has added more than 2,000 members during
the past 12 months.
For example,
NUHW added 500 members by winning
elections at two additional California hospitals just nine weeks ago.
Meanwhile,
SEIU-UHW is floundering.
Last
November, 250 workers at College
Hospital Cerritos in Los Angeles decertified
SEIU-UHW. Earlier, professional staffers at Dignity Health’s Northridge Hospital Medical Center also bolted
SEIU-UHW. Those workers included clinical lab scientists, social workers,
radiation therapists, nuclear medicine technologists, etc.
SEIU-UHW has repeatedly accepted massive benefit cuts and wage freezes affecting
tens of thousands of its members, and is now facing huge difficulty in getting
workers to want to join up. Shocker, right?
Congrats to NUHW’s
members!
