NLRB Asks Federal Court to Award Raises and Full Retro Pay to NUHW Members at Kaiser

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/05/2278772/nlrb-asks-federal-court-to-award.html

Posted on Tue, Oct. 05, 2010 02:45 PM

National Union of Healthcare Workers

SEIU's fraudulent campaign exposed on eve of ballot count for 43,500 more Kaiser workers to join NUHW

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Labor Relations Board petitioned a federal court yesterday for an injunction ordering Kaiser Permanente to immediately repay more than $1 million in illegally-withheld raises and other benefits that members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) are entitled to under the terms of their union contract. http://bit.ly/10j-req >

The withheld raises had become the centerpiece of a multi-million-dollar campaign by the SEIU to stop 43,500 more Kaiser employees from joining NUHW in an union election that ends tomorrow—the largest private-sector election since the 1940s.

"This isn't just a victory for NUHW members at Kaiser," said Jim Clifford, a therapist at Kaiser San Diego. "It's a guarantee for all workers that we have the right to choose a better union without risking anything. Shame on SEIU for trying to threaten people into staying with them."

In January, 2,300 Southern California Kaiser professionals and RNs voted by a landslide to leave SEIU and join NUHW. Kaiser management, ignoring established labor law, claimed that the contract those workers had under their former union no longer applied.

FULL story at link.