National Labor Relations Board, Aug. 27, 2010 Notice
“…Respondents [Kaiser] failed to maintain the established terms and conditions of employment for employees in these three units… tuition-reimbursement… time for monthly shop-steward training… an April 1, 2010 wage increase…. The Acting General Counsel seeks an Order requiring that the Respondent Permanente, Respondent Foundation and Respondents pay interest on any backpay or other monetary awards on a compounded quarterly basis.”

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Aug. 18 Conversation with Jean Bonnette (MSW, Baldwin Park), Dannielle Estrada (Coder, Baldwin Park), Mell Garcia (Medical Assistant, Hayward), and Leslie Harding (Sr. Surgical Tech, Redwood City).

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Aug. 25 Conversation with Sal Rosselli (NUHW President), Cindy Benko (Lead Pharmacy Tech, Fresno), and Jean Bonnette (MSW, Baldwin Park)

Kaiser San Jose NUHW Organizing Committee welcomes endorsement of SEIU stewards

Savonnda Blaylock, a Pharmacy Tech at Kaiser Tracy resigned as an SEIU steward on August 6. She said, “Our SEIU rep finally admitted that we won’t lose our benefits when we join NUHW. He’d been lying to me, so I was giving my co-workers bad information!  I won’t make the mistake of trusting SEIU ever again.”

Terra McClaughlin, PSR Opthamology from Santa Rosa endorsed NUHW on August 2, saying, “Voting NUHW is the only way we can get rid of SEIU’s side deals that weaken our contract and threaten our benefits and job security.”

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Hundreds of registered nurses at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center marched outside the hospital on Tuesday to share their concerns over patient and RN safety at Kaiser Permanente’s flagship Southern California facility. [Full story]

“We’re thrilled to have won this election and put our union back under members’ control,” said Julie Sidrow-Thompson, a monitor tech at the hospital. “For a year and a half, SEIU has stood in our way and left us without a voice. Now that we’re united again in NUHW, we’ll have the strength we need to stand up for our patients and ourselves.”

Within days, the National Labor Relations Board could set a date for 45,000 Kaiser Permanente workers to make the switch in the biggest private sector union election since the 1940s. All of these workers are part of a mass exodus of SEIU members who have made NUHW the fastest-growing union in California.

Up to this point, SEIU had insisted that Kaiser workers be forced to vote in the workplace, where managers and SEIU staff have tried to keep them from hearing both sides.

As a result of this agreement, 44,000 Kaiser workers will be able to vote to join NUHW in the privacy and security of their own homes. Their secret ballots will then be counted by the federal government. Kaiser will be required to recognize the union that Kaiser workers choose.

“The decision we have to make is too important to let SEIU and Kaiser managers make it for us,” said Delores Jones, a medical assistant at Kaiser Stockton. “We have the right to have all the information and vote for the union that gives us the strongest voice for our patients and ourselves.”

Nearly 600 caregivers at Providence Tarzana Medical Center voted yesterday to join NUHW. Although SEIU delayed the ballot count by asking the labor board to review an earlier decision, an absolute majority of Providence Tarzana workers signed a public statement pledging their votes for NUHW.

“We’ve taken back our union,” said Julie Sidrow-Thompson, a monitor tech at the hospital. “For a year and a half, SEIU has stood in our way and left us without a voice. Now that we’re united again in NUHW, we have the strength we need to stand up for our patients and ourselves.”

Providence is the second Catholic hospital system where workers have organized with NUHW, after St. Joseph Health System. Starting today, the 13,000 caregivers at Catholic Healthcare West—the largest non-profit healthcare provider in California—are collecting signatures to call for their own election to join NUHW once they are eligible to change unions next year. [Full story]