NUHW

• A majority of 100,000 SEIU members are organizing to leave SEIU and join with NUHW.
• The North Bay Labor Council, representing 60 unions, said “It is clear that Memorial workers have chosen NUHW as their union and we respect and support their decision. We respectfully ask that SEJU-UHW respect these workers’ choice and withdraw from the election….”
• Fifteen religious and community leaders sent a letter asking SEIU-UHW to “re-consider your position against a fair election agreement. …Any further delay will only undermine the collective efforts of health care workers and the faith community who supports them.”
• Monsignor John Brenkle of St. Helena Catholic Church wrote in the Press Democrat that “workers have clearly chosen to cast their lot with the NUHW. SEIU’s continued delay of the workers’ election, and its refusal to agree to ground rules for the election at Memorial, flies in the face of Catholic social teaching…”
• The president of an American Federation of Teachers local union said that “[SEIU-]UHW has been taken over by a predatory and undemocratic international union…. the real leaders for healthcare workers are now with NUHW.”
• The president of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific says NUHW is “the true representatives of healthcare workers in California.”

SEIU

• SEIU has virtually no support from the labor movement. In fact, dozens of national union leaders and labor councils have condemned SEIU’s attacks on unions.