On numerous occasions over the last couple of years, we’ve posted on the ongoing war in California between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the upstart National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW)
Well, despite the fact that the SEIU’s former president Andy Stern now sits on a corporate board of directors, the California war he created is still raging on.
In California The National Union of Health Care Workers Tuesday filed worker petitions with the National Labor Relations Board for elections to decertify SEIU at Kaiser Permanente. The elections will give 45,000 workers a choice between continuing with SEIU or joining NUHW. NUHW was formed when SEIU International placed its United Healthcare Workers West local in trusteeship sixteen months ago in a dispute with the local’s leaders. Robert Hernandez is an SEIU member at Kaiser who supports switching to NUHW. He says it’s about union democracy and the rank and file having a choice.
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As long as the union wars in California still rage, Andy Stern will live, if not in body, then at least in spirit within the SEIU.
