Get The Facts About SEIU
The Service Employees International Union
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Brochures:
SEIU International - A New Model of Corporate Unionism - Why Union Members and Progressives Should Be Wary
An RN Voice for Direct Care Nurses
Building a Stronger Voice for All Nurses in California
Informational Flyers:
Six Ways the CNA/NNOC election in Texas differs from the SEIU deal in Ohio
Q&A: NNOC/CNA's Opposition to SEIU International’s Deal in Ohio and Company Unionism...
Congratulations! 8,000 CHP Hospital Employees Reject Hand-Picked Union
Message from RNs to RNs:
RNs Speak Out: The SEIU Track Record
Letter of Support:
Open Letter to SEIU from the Student Labor Community
Student Labor Community 05/03/08
SEIU Exploits African American Women and Children at Labor Notes Conterence
SEIU National AFRAM Caucus President, Marchel Smiley 04/17/08
Open Letter to SEIU Members and Leaders on the Violence at the Labor Notes Conference
SMART 04/17/08
Letter of Support from the Massachusetts Nurses Association
MNA 04/07/08
What SEIU is Doing in Puerto Rico:
FMPR 's Advertisment in the San Juan Star
Support the union struggle of the Puerto Rican teachers!
New York labor leader Dennis Rivera in shady Puerto Rico union deal
New York Daily News 02/29/08
Teachers Strike Stops Classes in Puerto Rico
Labor Notes 05/05/08
What Happened In Ohio? SEIU Exposed...
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, the Catholic Healthcare Partners chain and its hand picked union, the Service Employees International Union, cancelled rigged elections March 11th -- 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.
Registered Nurses Beware...
The Service Employees union’s threat to RN patient advocacy and democratic rights
In response to the growing national movement for ratios and greater RN power at the bedside and the public arena, the hospital industry is fighting back. They found a willing ally in the Service Employees International Union. SEIU is a non-RN union — only 2% of their members are RNs — for a reason: registered nurses know SEIU cannot be counted on to protect RN professional practice.
They negotiate deals with employers solely to gain new members, and in exchange they lobby against legislative reforms that would protect patients and accept contracts that weaken RN standards.
The SEIU record:
- Signed a deal in Ohio with Catholic Healthcare Partners to impose SEIU as the union for RNs without a single signed union card from the nurses in a rigged election that barred any other union from being on the ballot. The deal also prohibited nurses from talking about the union or the vote. The “union” vote was requested by the employer, not the employees.
- Under a pact with California nursing homes, agreed to lobby against reforms to require better patient care conditions in nursing homes, and to give management the “exclusive right” to set pay, discipline employees,
- Joined with the New York Hospital Association to endorse the closure of more than a dozen public hospitals and nursing homes in New York state.
- Lobbied against the California RN-to-patient ratio law, opposed tougher penalties against hospitals that willfully violate the law, and pushed for regulations to expand the role of LPNs to replace RNs in hospitals and other clinical settings.
- Joined with Wal-Mart’s CEO to push for sham healthcare reform while providing political cover for Wal-Mart’s failure to offer decent health coverage to its employees.
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