Judge Dumps SEIU-UHW’s Dirty Trick in Kaiser Election

As Tasty predicted, SEIU-UHW is employing more dirty tricks in the election at Kaiser Permanente. Today, one of SEIU's tricks was unceremoniously tossed onto the garbage by a judge in Northern California. 

Here’s what happened.

At Kaiser Walnut Creek Medical Center, SEIU-UHW apparently realized it was rapidly losing workers’ support. So SEIU hatched a scheme to try to lock out NUHW’s and CNA’s organizers from the hospital during the entire voting period.

How?

It’s a trick that many workers have seen before. An SEIU-UHW person instigates an aggressive confrontation with you… and then suddenly starts screaming, “Assault! Assault! Did you see that? S/he touched me… Assault, assault!”

It’s ridiculous and pathetic, but hey… it’s SEIU.

In this particular case, Linda Hunter -- an apparently well-known bully at Kaiser Walnut Creek Medical Center -- was the purple fabricator. Hunter is an SEIU-UHW shop steward and a member of SEIU-UHW’s Executive Board. And she’s reportedly super skilled at cutting secret deals with Kaiser’s managers -- like she did when she was recently SEIU-UHW’s Contract Specialist.   

Just before the ballots were mailed out, Hunter went up to a CNA organizer, ripped leaflets out of his hand, tore them up… and then claimed she’d been “assaulted!”

Hunter quickly filed complaints with Kaiser’s H.R. and the police, and even requested a temporary restraining order at the local courthouse. She then asked her partners in Kaiser’s H.R. Department to stop the CNA organizer from stepping foot inside the hospital during the voting period.

Kaiser’s H.R. Department tried to do its best to help Hunter. But there was one fatal flaw to SEIU’s plot -- Hunter’s claims were totally and completely fabricated. The police, the court and even Kaiser’s H.R. dismissed all of her bullsh*t claims.

This morning, a judge hurled Hunter’s bogus request for a restraining order into the judicial garbage can. Sources say Hunter scurried from the courthouse with her tail between her legs.

Hunter could now face trouble for perjuring herself and abusing the court’s limited resources, say sources. And... if she ever actually needs the court to do something for her, she’s gonna have a hard time getting a judge to believe her. All of Hunter’s perjured claims are now part of the public record.

Tasty wonders which of the geniuses over at SEIU-UHW instructed Hunter to put a match to her reputation. It could have been Carolyn Conter, an organizer who’s also part of the $100,000-a-year club at SEIU-UHW. Conter has been camped out at Kaiser Walnut Creek Medical Center for months, say sources.

Or it might’ve been Octavio Velarde, who was recently spotted slithering around on the floor inside the hospital. Here’s a pic. (That's Octavio hiding between the couch and the planter.)

What about SEIU-UHW’s ex-cop Elvis fraudster?  Unlikely, say Tasty’s sources. Apparently, Dave Regan has transferred him to a new assignment... perhaps he's now responsible for revamping SEIU’s Department of Fraud and Dirty Tricks!  

SEIU-UHW Adds 'Disney' to Shakedowns in Kaiser Election

Below, Tasty has posted photos that offer a glimpse at SEIU-UHW's stranger-than-fiction election campaign at Kaiser Permanente.

On the one hand, SEIU’s campaign is all about fear, bullying, manipulation and intimidation. Recently, for example, Niko Anagnostopoulos (an SEIU-UHW Shop Steward and member of SEIU-UHW's Executive Board) reportedly pushed a co-worker and then ripped an NUHW lanyard from the worker’s neck. This assault apparently got Anagnostopoulos suspended from Kaiser Walnut Creek Medical Center for several weeks. 

In addition, SEIU is stepping up its dirty-tricks campaign targeting workers in their homes.

At the same time… SEIU-UHW is also using Disney-like cartoon characters to deliver doses of disinformation to workers. This softer, gentler side of SEIU’s disinformation campaign employs a cast of cartoon characters including SEIU’s repurposed SpongeBob character called “Contract Buddy.”

Check out these photos from the Disneyland side of SEIU’s campaign, including a shot of Dave Regan  trying to impersonate the Wizard of Oz. 

Ohh, and don't feel strange if you find yourself scratching your head and saying, "WTF!"

 

Notice how Dave Regan's picture frame is decorated with images of Contract Buddy. Dave is so cool!

 

 

An actual campaign event at Kaiser: 'Get your picture taken while wearing stupid purple stuff'

Dave Regan Assigns Ex-Cop Busted for Elvis Fraud to Campaign for SEIU-UHW at Kaiser

It looks like Denver Henderson, the faux journalist from Montana, is just the tip of the iceberg among Dave Regan’s standout recruits working on SEIU’s Kaiser campaign. 

Tasty has learned that Regan has assigned John Solis (another pillar of integrity) to work as an organizer trying to convince workers at Kaiser Walnut Creek Medical Center in Northern California to vote for SEIU-UHW in the upcoming NLRB election. 

Solis is reportedly a former cop in the San Francisco Police Department who got busted for grand theft after he defrauded Elvis collectors of an estimated $32,000. By the way, Solis happened to commit his felony while serving as a cop!

Oh... and Solis was also reportedly busted for shop-lifting toys at Costco while wearing his police uniform, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

How did Solis swindle the Elvis merchants?

According to Solis’s wife, he’s been fascinated with “The King” since he was 10 years old… and even built an Elvis shrine at the couple’s home in Hercules, California. 

Here’s how the San Francisco Chronicle tells the next part of this pathetic, strange-ass story:

Hercules police say Solis ordered hundreds of Elvis compact discs, videos, books, watches and other collectible items, and in many cases claimed he never received them so he could get his money back from the shippers.

It is a case that Hercules Police Detective William Imboden called ''nothing like I've ever seen before."

Solis was arrested Monday and more than 800 items were seized from his home after more than four months of investigation, Imboden said yesterday.

At the time of his arrest on suspicion of grand theft and forgery, Solis was already facing misdemeanor charges in San Francisco in connection with a shoplifting case.

Prosecutors say Solis twice went to a Costco store in his police uniform in June, took toys from the shelf, claimed to have bought them and then tried to exchange them for similar, less expensive toys to get cash for the difference.

After his arrest on eight counts of grand theft and forgery, Solis was held on $100,000 bail and later pleaded ‘no contest’ to grand theft.

In this article -- “S.F. Cop Could Face ‘Jailhouse Rock’ If He Defrauded Elvis Fans” -- the Chronicle describes how “Solis defrauded an Arkansas man out of 90 rare Elvis videos worth $2,700” and “scammed a Texas woman for $3,700 worth of books, CDs and other items.” Quite a guy.

Hmm... perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea for Regan to give Solis access to Kaiser workers’ social security numbers and personal information, including their employee ID numbers.

So what kind of stolen items did Solis display in his shrine to “The King?” 650 CDs, 160 videos, 38 books, framed posters, plaques, gold records, signed photos, wallets… even an Elvis eyeglass case.

Apparently, Solis used multiple aliases during his Elvis-inspired crime spree, including “Alex Alexander,” which is reportedly taken from his middle name. Here's how Solis is listed on SEIU-UHW’s 2011 report to the U.S. Department of Labor (what's called an "LM-2").

Interestingly, Solis continues to be a topic of heated conversation on Elvis fan sites, including ElvisNews.com and elvis-collectors.com, where Elvis devotees have posted messages with titles like this: “Jailed Elvis Ripoff artist on the prowl again!”

But wait… that’s not all. 

Regan’s felonious storm-trooper is also a less-than-stellar trade unionist! According to the monthly journal of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, Solis was suspended from the union after he failed to pay his dues for a whole year! Check out the excerpt below.

Sounds like Solis will be super successful at convincing Kaiser workers to vote for SEIU-UHW! Who else has Regan recruited to chase Kaiser workers down hospital hallways??

SEIU-UHW: More Krookin’ at Kaiser Ratification Votes

Tasty hears that SEIU-UHW officials have pulled another head-spinning scam out of their purple bag of tricks. Here’s what’s happening:

At Kaiser Permanente’s hospitals in California, SEIU-UHW has been holding “ratification votes” on a proposed three-year contract recently negotiated by John August and Dave Regan. Remarkably, workers at more than a dozen facilities have voted down the proposed deal despite the fact that SEIU’s vote is a far cry from democratic and transparent.

Now that the voting is supposed to conclude, it’s clear that SEIU-UHW officials are unhappy with the results. What to do? They’ve simply added more days of voting at multiple facilities in hopes of changing the outcome! 

For example, readers report they’ve extended the voting at Kaiser Baldwin Park Medical Center, Kaiser Modesto Medical Center, Kaiser Walnut Creek Medical Center and others. At some facilities, Regan has reportedly added as many as four additional days of voting.

It’s equivalent to doing the following at a baseball game:  the Purple Team is unhappy with the score after 9 innings. So they change the rules and add 5 more innings in hopes they’ll end up on top by the end of the 14^th inning. And if they don’t, Tasty will bet dollars to donuts that they’ll pull another trick from their bag.

So what’s happening as Regan prepares for extra innings?  Readers report that SEIU has assigned more staffers and “Lost-Timers” to patrol the floors of Kaiser’s facilities so they can target workers to vote for SEIU’s deal.

At Kaiser Baldwin Park, workers literally stumbled across “extra-inning” voting in a Kaiser conference room. SEIU-UHW staffers had somehow forgotten to post an announcement about the extra balloting.

Finally, speaking of SEIU’s tentative agreement, a worker sent along interesting information about SEIU’s proposed “Partnership Tax,” which would make SEIU-UHW members pay a 9-cents-an-hour tax for every hour they work. The tax would be on top of workers’ regular union dues. If approved, SEIU-UHW would collect an additional $6 million a year from Kaiser’s 43,000 workers through the Partnership Tax.

So how would this $6 million be spent? According to SEIU-UHW’s summary of the tentative agreement, the tax would pay for things like training Kaiser managers on the union’s contract and “conferences on the Labor Management Partnership.” 

Gimme a break! Kaiser is making $7 billion in profits, but workers gotta pay for the training of Kaiser’s managers and supervisors? And what about these “partnership conferences”?  Do they include junkets like this one at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel and Spa where SEIU’s hand-picked favorites revel in steam rooms and poolside bars?

Here’s the excerpt from SEIU-UHW’s summary about the Partnership Tax. (Click on image to enlarge)