What’s the
controversy?
As Tasty
reported earlier, SEIU-UHW president Dave
Regan was pushing to impose a new 25-cents-per-hour-worked “partnership tax” on SEIU-UHW’s members
at Kaiser. All of the tax revenues -- approximately $26 million per year –
would have helped fund a new training academy controlled by Regan, which his internal
critics called a “slush fund.”
In response
to workers’ criticism of the new “partnership tax,” Regan pulled a “switcheroo”
on SEIU-UHW’s members, according to internal critics.
In the final
version of the tentative agreement, Regan removed the partnership tax and allegedly
replaced it with a stealth funding mechanism that nonetheless requires SEIU-UHW
members to foot the bill. According to critics, Regan agreed to have SEIU-UHW
members forgo 2% in wage increases offered by Kaiser so those funds could
instead be steered into Regan’s training fund. Tasty doesn’t have access to
sufficient information to independently corroborate these allegations.
See more
details in the leaflet below, which comes from John Duff, a retired Kaiser worker who formerly served on
SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board.
Leaflet to SEIU-UHW Members at Kaiser on Regan's Stealth 'Partnership Tax:' Oct. 2019 by Anonymous iC9QziK on Scribd
