NLRB Sets Date for Biggest Union Election in 70 Years
July 30th 2010 · 0 Comments
The war between the SEIU and the NUHW may come down to this…
The National Labor Relations Board has scheduled a government-protected mail ballot election beginning Sept. 13 for nearly 44,000 Kaiser Permanente workers to join the National Union of Healthcare Workers and kick out the incumbent union SEIU.
“We’re voting NUHW to protect our raises and benefits, and get our union back under the control of the members,” said Yolanda Chavez, a senior licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Oakland for 20 years. “We need a stronger voice at work, and a union that will tell us what’s really going on.”
The vote will be the largest private-sector union election since the 1940s.
Read more @ Yahoo! News.
Tags: Andy Stern, Kaiser Permanente, National Union of Healthcare Workers, NUHW, SEIU, Service Employees International Union
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