Hospital Workers Dump SEIU for Upstart NUHW
January 11th 2011 · 0 Comments
Kindred Hospital Workers Dump SEIU
AARON GLANTZ | Pulse of the Bay
January 10, 2011
Workers at Kindred Hospital in San Leandro have voted to leave the Service Employees International Union and join its competitor, the National Union of Healthcare Workers.
The election at Kindred covered 83 workers, including licensed vocational nurses, certified nursing assistants, unit assistants, environmental services employees, and dietary workers.
The result provides the latest twist in what has become the biggest intra-labor dispute in the county.
The upstart NUHW, which is headed by longtime San Francisco union chief Sal Rosselli, split from the SEIU in 2009, saying the larger union had become too cozy with management.
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