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    Kaiser workers are choosing NUHW

    Althea Smith

    LVN, OB-GYN, Kaiser West LA

    Ana Urrutia

    Transport, Kaiser Fresno

    Angela Glasper

    Optical Sales, Kaiser Antioch

    Angie Prendez

    MA, Medicine, Kaiser Selma

    We are NUHW!

    Anna Garcia

    Lab II Assistant, Kaiser Fresno

    Anthony Malonson

    HIM, Kaiser SSF

    April Bjorklund

    LVN, MIC, Kaiser Pleasanton

    Betty Lomax

    Family Medicine, Kaiser West LA

    Blia Lor

    EVS, Kaiser Fresno

    We’re choosing NUHW!

    Bruce Cooley

    Sonographer, Kaiser San Jose

    Brian Krepps

    IP, Pharmacy, Kaiser Modesto

    Christine Haynes

    Sr. Admitting Rep, Kaiser Fresno

    Cecilia Roman

    Medical Assistant, Kaiser Modesto

    Cindy Thomas

    Secretary WPS, San Rafael Clinics

    Kaiser Baldwin Park

    Dannielle, Cookie, Carla, Leslie

    Cindy Benko

    Lead Tech Pharmacy, Kaiser Stockton

    Debbie Almendarez

    HIM Specialist, Kaiser Modesto

    Delores Jones

    MA APC, Kaiser Stockton

    Emily Ryan

    Psych Social Worker, Kaiser Folsom

    Esther Mucino

    Medical Assistant, Kaiser Antioch

    Denise, Lover, Angela, Sandra, Mell

    Glenda Manning

    Clerk So Med, Kaiser West LA

    Irma Martinez

    Medical Asst ENT, Kaiser Santa Clara

    Jason Grove

    Rad Tech II, Kaiser Woodland Hills

    Jeffery Taylor

    MA Medicine, Kaiser Stockton

    Jenny Doyal

    MA, Kaiser Petaluma

    John Henderson

    MA Pulmonary, Kaiser Sacramento

    Jonathan Welch

    Aide EVS, Kaiser Roseville

    Jonnee Bouyer

    TSR AACC, Kaiser Sacramento

    Roberto Alverez

    CST OR, Kaiser Downey

    Robert Hernandez

    Clerk Materials, Kaiser Baldwin Park

    Sandra Rodriguez

    MA, Kaiser Orange County

    Steve Sperling

    Regional Courier, Sherman Way

    Teresa Sherman

    Kaiser Vacaville

    Todd Weiss

    RCP, Kaiser West LA

    Virginia Dahl

    Hospital Operator, Baldwin Park

    Martha Willis

    Lab Assistant, Kaiser Inglewood

    Maricela Hernandez

    Kaiser South Bay

    Kaiser Pros and RNs voted NUHW!

    Kaiser Orange County and Downey are choosing NUHW!

    Kaiser South Bay is choosing NUHW!

    Spencer Gross

    Psychologist, Kaiser Pleasanton

    Debbie Ortega

    Medical Assistant, Kaiser Bellflower

    Tom O’Grady

    Nuclear Med Tech, Kaiser Woodland Hills

    Rudy Martinez

    Lift Team, Kaiser LAMC

    Northern California IBHS supports NUHW!

    Monica Fibrow

    Pharm Tech, Kaiser Manteca

    Kaiser Sacramento Call Center supports NUHW!

    Kaiser Redwood City supports NUHW!

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    Thursday
    Jul082010

    Ellen Dillinger's "Under Trusteeship" meets Pinocchio

    “Pinocchio” is the latest cartoon by Ellen Dillinger, a transcriptionist in Radiology at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento. Click the small version below to view it full-size.

    Wednesday
    Jun302010

    My reflection on "Labor's Civil War in California" by David Mallon

    My bargaining unit within the Kaiser Permanente health system, the Kaiser Psych-Social Chapter, made up entirely of licensed and certified mental health professionals, had for 35 years been part of Local 535. We had bargained many successful contracts on our own, without any help from the International. But in the summer of 2006 SEIU conducted jurisdictional hearings at Stern’s behest and concluded that Local 535 should be dissolved and the various bargaining units farmed out to other locals. It was a preview of future power grabs. Stern’s arrogance was highlighted when my chapter sent him petitions asking that Local 535 not be dissolved and that we remain in that union. He ignored us utterly. There was not even an acknowledgment that we had protested. Local events like this were the grains of corruption that the International processed into bread for the locals to eat.

    Winslow lays out in staccato fashion the multitude of plots hatched against UHW in 2007 and 2008: the “implosion” scheme, the deconstruction scheme, the vivisection scheme; the pooled voting scheme, and the “swamp and drown” with litigation scheme, culminating in the “let’s make it look like democracy” scheme that was the 2008 International convention in Puerto Rico.

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    Saturday
    May082010

    "Under Trusteeship" by Ellen Dillinger

    The Satanic Surgeon” is the latest cartoon by Ellen Dillinger, a transcriptionist in Radiology at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento. Click the small version below to view it full-size.

    Wednesday
    Apr072010

    The power of a member-led union: by LaNeta Fitzhugh

    This blog post originally appeared on the Huffington Post.

    My name is LaNeta Fitzhugh and I work as a Registered Nurse (RN), at Kaiser Sunset Los Angeles Medical Center. Kaiser Sunset is one of the largest hospitals in the nation. We serve hundreds of patients every day on seven floors, and RNs are involved in every aspect of the care of our patients. The voice of RNs at Kaiser Sunset is central to the proper function of our hospital.

    This January, RNs at Kaiser Sunset voted 20 to 1 to leave SEIU and to express our voice with the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).

    When people ask why my co-workers and I voted to join our union, our answer is simple.

    Our union, NUHW, is a member-led union.

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    Monday
    Mar292010

    Democracy on Trial: My view on SEIU's lawsuit against our union, by Shirley Nelson

    This blog post originally appeared on the Huffington Post

    My name is Shirley Nelson. I work as Certified Nursing Assistant and I have been a caregiver at Kaiser Redwood City Hospital for 42 years. I would like to thank the community of readers here at Calitics for providing me an opportunity to share my point of view about SEIU’s civil lawsuit against 26 union reformers.

    They say every coin has two sides, well, so does every case in court

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    Wednesday
    Mar242010

    A democratic union that we, the members control: by Tyrone Dickens

    My name is Tyrone Dickens and I am a union healthcare worker. I have worked as a homecare provider in San Francisco for almost six years. My work involves cleaning, cooking and caring for patients in their homes who cannot do these things for themselves. For some of my homecare consumers who don’t have family any more I am the only companion in their lives.

    This week I have attended a civil lawsuit in which the officials of the union that currently represent me are suing the former leaders of my local union, leaders that I elected and that I still support. I know that may sound confusing, but I think I can explain it clearly so that you can understand.

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    Tuesday
    Mar162010

    Why we are choosing NUHW at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center: by Oscar Medina

    Oscar Medina, Transporter, Alta Bates Summit Medical CenterMy name is Oscar Medina and I’ve worked as a transporter at Summit Alta Bates Hospital for seven years.  I’d like to share our experience at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center since SEIU took over our local union. In particular, I would like to explain what has happened with our contract and why we are choosing to organize with a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers.

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    Thursday
    Feb252010

    Saint Louise caregivers taking back our union with NUHW: by Kathleen Volle

    Published in the Gilroy Dispatch

    I’ve been a respiratory therapist at Saint Louise Regional Hospital for 18 years. I want to tell our community the truth about what’s been going on in our hospital over the last year, and why things are about to get better.

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    Tuesday
    Feb162010

    NUHW member joins UNITE HERE fast for justice: guest blog by Jim Clifford

    My name is Jim Clifford and I work at Kaiser Permanente and I’m one of the 2300 healthcare professionals, 85 percent of whom just voted to form our own National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).  We along with many other locals were taken over in an undemocratic grab for power by SEIU International’s Andrew Stern, as formidable a foe as Disney or any Corporate entity ruthlessly in search of ever more power.  SEIU has raided UNITE HERE locals as well, so UNITE HERE members are quite supportive of us, showing support in many ways including giving us space at their meeting hall whenever we need it. NUHW members have also attended UNITE HERE rallies at Disney.  Thus I came to be invited to join the UNITE HERE fast. Kaiser nurses from NUHW and UNAC check on the fasters twice daily. This help is made even more crucial in that one faster had to leave the effort due to elevated blood pressure and another had to be seen by a doctor for chest pain as cheers of “Si se puede!” accompanied her into the waiting ambulance.

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    Thursday
    Jan282010

    Our union is NUHW!

    Today our hard work and unity paid off, and we are proud to announce that our union is the National Union of Healthcare Workers!

  • RNs at Kaiser Sunset LAMC voted 746 to 36 to join NUHW Kaiser SoCal Psychsocial Professionals voted 717 to 192 to join NUHW Kaiser SoCal Healthcare Professionals voted 189 to 29 to join NUHW
  • Our votes, joined with those of our brothers and sisters at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Los Alamitos Medical Center, The Sequoias-Portola Valley and Doctors Medical Center San Pablo, send a message to every healthcare worker seeking a voice in their workplace and a union that they control: in election after election, workers are choosing NUHW.

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