{"id":10991,"date":"2010-01-27T03:56:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T03:56:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-30T01:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T01:11:41","slug":"our-union-is-nuhw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/our-union-is-nuhw\/","title":{"rendered":"Our union is NUHW!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today our hard work and unity paid off, and we are proud to announce that our union is the National Union of Healthcare Workers<\/a>! <\/p>\n

RNs at Kaiser Sunset LAMC voted 746 to 36<\/strong> to join NUHW
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Kaiser SoCal Psychsocial Professionals voted 717 to 192<\/strong> to join NUHW
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Kaiser SoCal Healthcare Professionals voted 189 to 29<\/strong> to join NUHW<\/p>\n

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<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Kaiser<\/a><\/p>\n

One year after the hostile takeover of our union by SEIU, we’ve sent a clear message with our votes today. <\/p>\n

With 3,400 new members, NUHW is now California’s fastest growing union<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. The results of our elections also mean that NUHW has won 7 out of 9 competitive elections against SEIU<\/em> and in those elections NUHW has decisively won the vote of healthcare workers. Our growth among previously unorganized workers also sends a powerful signal to the labor movement as a whole–four of NUHW’s eight victories this last year were among workers who were previously non-union<\/em>; our organizing victory at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital was the nation’s biggest hospital election of 2009.<\/p>\n

You can read a full description of NUHW’s organizing success in our Year One Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While those numbers are impressive, they can’t express the core reason we chose NUHW: we want a member-led union that we control<\/strong><\/em>–where our voice matters in our workplace and in the care of our patients.<\/p>\n

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We know that as elections are scheduled in workplace after workplace, an exodus of healthcare workers will join us in NUHW and leave SEIU. We also know that won’t happen automatically; it will take work.<\/p>\n

Our victories were rooted in member leadership and strong organizing committees.  As we celebrate we know that other workers are eagerly organizing to join us in NUHW.<\/p>\n

There is so much for us to win and so much hope in this new year.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Today, as three Kaiser units in Souther California, we are so proud to stand with our brothers and sisters who voted before us and say, “WE are NUHW!<\/strong><\/em>”<\/p>\n

Tessie Costales<\/strong>, RN, Kaiser Sunset\/LAMC
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Jim Clifford<\/strong>, Therapist, MS, Kaiser San Diego Psychiatry
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Molly Miller<\/strong>, CDRP III, Kaiser Fontana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today our hard work and unity paid off, and we are proud to announce that our union is the National Union of Healthcare Workers<\/a>! <\/p>\n

RNs at Kaiser Sunset LAMC voted 746 to 36<\/strong> to join NUHW
\n
Kaiser SoCal Psychsocial Professionals voted 717 to 192<\/strong> to join NUHW
\n
Kaiser SoCal Healthcare Professionals voted 189 to 29<\/strong> to join NUHW<\/p>\n

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<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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