California Workers Vote to Join NUHW

Congratulations to several hundred workers in Southern California who recently voted to join NUHW in multiple NLRB elections.

On July 13, a group of 125 workers at Kindred Hospital San Diego voted to join NUHW by a margin of…

• 87 (NUHW)
• 2 (No Union)
• 1 (Challenged ballots)

One week later, a unit of 126 workers at 219-bed West Anaheim Medical Center voted by a margin of…

• 65 (NUHW)
• 47 (No Union)
• 6 (Challenged ballots)

And that’s not all.

NUHW has recently won eight elections in a row at outpatient clinics run by Keck Medicine of USC, which operates three acute-care hospitals in Los Angeles.

Keep it up!

NUHW Wins Another One!

This just in.  Today, a group of 150 non-union nurses, technical and service workers at a hospital in Southern California voted by nearly a two-to-one margin to join NUHW. 

According to Tasty’s sources, the workers beat back an aggressive anti-union campaign from their Boss at Kindred Brea Hospital. Here’s the final tally from the NLRB election:

NUHW: 81

No Union: 44

That makes seven election victories in a row for NUHW… including last month’s win at Seton Medical Center in Northern California, where 700 workers voted to dump SEIU-UHW and join NUHW. 

More California Workers Bolt SEIU-UHW... 5 Victories in a Row for NUHW!

Last Friday, workers at a nursing home in the San Francisco Bay Area voted unanimously to join NUHW!

This latest win caps a string of five election victories for NUHW in the past month. Three of the elections were by non-union workers at Kindred Healthcare and Sutter Health and two were among workers who decertified SEIU-UHW to join NUHW.

Friday’s election at a nursing home in San Rafael offers another startling chapter in the tale of fraud and deception that SEIU-UHW’s Dave Regan has brought to California.

Here’s what happened.

Last year, SEIU-UHW’s Myriam Escamilla conducted secret negotiations with the workers’ boss… and then signed a full contract without ever talking to the workers!

The story gets worse.

Workers heard some buzz from their supervisors about the negotiations, so they repeatedly asked SEIU-UHW: “Are you negotiating with our boss?” 

Escamilla -- who now directs SEIU-UHW's Hospital Division -- boldly lied to workers, telling them “No.” But workers soon discovered that SEIU-UHW had allowed the Boss to slash their benefits, working hours, and other conditions.

Myriam Escamilla

After repeatedly confronting Escamilla, workers forced her to show them the secret agreement. Workers then forced Escamilla to put it to a vote of the membership. Workers voted it down unanimously! And then filed a petition to decertify SEIU-UHW and join NUHW!

In typical fashion, SEIU-UHW launched its stall-and-delay tactics at the NLRB, which held up the election for more than half a year. 

But as last Friday’s election finally drew near, SEIU-UHW officials acknowledged they had zero support among the workers… So, just 48 hours before the election, SEIU-UHW formally withdrew from the election and workers voted unanimously to join NUHW.

Congrats to the workers for prevailing in their lengthy fight to free themselves from the purple tentacles!