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What really happened in Ohio with SEIU?

Hospital Chain and Hand Picked Union, SEIU, Forced to Cancel Rigged Election After Protests by RNs and Other Employees - 'A Victory for Employees, Patient Care, and Union Democracy'

After public exposure and protests byt the CNA/NNOC and others, the Catholic Healthcare Partners chain and its hand picked union, the Service Employees International Union, cancelled rigged elections -- called without a single sign of support from the employees -- planned this week for 8,000 registered nurses and other employees at nine Ohio hospitals in Cincinnati, Lima, and Springfield. Since then, SEIU is making every attempt to slander the CNA/NNOC and it's reputation as a high quality union of, by, and for Registered Nurses.

Learn the truth about how SEIU operates:

Read the complete press release

Read NNOC/CNA’s Opposition to the SEIU Deal in Ohio and Company Unionism (Q&A)

Read a Letter from NNOC/CNA Executive Director, Rose Ann DeMoro

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SEIU WATCH: Serving Employers Instead of Us

TESTIMONIALS:

“When nurses and patients fought for safe staffing ratios in California, SEIU joined with the state’s hospital association to lobby against the ratios.

SEIU later tried to water down the safe staffing ratios by having LPNs included in the count.”

Deborah Burger, RN
Member of the Council of Presidents
of the National Nurses Organizing Committee/
California Nurses Association.

“Ohio nurses want to be part of a professional nurses organization, not SEIU.

Ohio nurses and patients desperately need safe staffing ratios in each of our hospitals, something that would never happen with SEIU.”

Terry Gallagher, RN
EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria, Ohio
NNOC Ohio member

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

CHP's Scheme to Force You into the Service Employees Union:

Protect the rights of RNs!

CHP has adopted a strategy to silence RNs and deny you a democratic choice. CHP has signed an illegal back room deal with the Service Employees Union (SEIU) intended to force RNs into this non-RN union.

The elections scheduled for March 12-14 will not give you a choice of a professional nurses union. The largest professional nurses union in the country, the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) Ohio, AFL-CIO is not on the ballot.

The only union CHP is letting you vote for is the union hand-picked by Catholic Healthcare Partners, the non-RN Service Employees Union. Millions of Ohioans had a choice of Presidential candidates to vote for
on March 4.

Why shouldn’t Ohio RNs have a choice of which union you want to represent you?

CHP RNs deserve a REAL choice.

CHP RNs deserve to decide for yourselves what union you want to represent you, not have your union hand-picked by your employer. Why should the hospital choose YOUR union?

CHP RNs deserve to be part of a professional RN union, not a Service Employees union.

The NNOC is the largest professional nurses union in the country, with 80,000 RNs in 50 states including Ohio, with RN contracts that include the highest RN salaries and best staffing protections in the nation. NNOC won the nation’s first RN-to-patient safe staffing ratios in California.

Vote "No" so you can have a choice.

Because there will not be a choice on the ballot March 12-14, RNs should vote "NO" to protect your right to choose a professional nurses union like the NNOC-Ohio.
Vote "NO" to a union picked by management, not RNs.
Vote "NO" to protect the rights of RNs.
Vote "NO" to an inferior union contract that sells out RNs.

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NEWS AND PRESS:

Hospital Chain and Hand Picked Union, SEIU, Forced to Cancel Rigged Election After Protests by RNs and Other Employees - 'A Victory for Employees, Patient Care, and Union Democracy'
Press Release 03/11/08