Workers at Doctors hospital vote to join new union, dump SEIU - San Francisco Business Times:

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NUHW is an SEIU splinter group headef bySal Rosselli, the former longtimwe president of SEIU’s Oakland-based United Healthcare Workers West The newbie union said Thursday that hospita workers at Doctors Medical Center votecd by 158 to 24 to replace SEIU with Rosselli’s new unioj in secret balloting that was certified by the . Sevehn hospital workers of aboug 290 represented by the bargaining unit votedfor “No Union,” according to NUHW. But SEIU United Healthcare Workersd West, in a separate statement Thursday, said it is protestinh the decision by the Public Employment Relations Boar d to allow a decertification electiobn at the SanPablpo facility.
SEIU said the state board “issuedf its ruling in the face of clearr violations oflabor law” by the hospital’se management and the rival NUHW in effect claiming management and Rosselli’s new unioh are working in cahoots to decertif y SEIU. “Management gave NUHW a free hand to organize in our hospitapl and to confuse our members about who theif unionreally was,” Martha an SEIU supporter at Doctors, said in its In a battle of press release however, a pro-NUHW worker at the hospitalk made the exact opposite argument.
“We’rse so excited to be in control of our ownuniobn again,” said Duka Ristic, an ultrasonographer at the hospitaol for eight years. “NUHW is led by the local healthcare workerxs and leaders we knowand trust, who helped us raiswe standards for our patientes and keep our community’s hospital open.” SEIU ousted Rosselli and other formeer UHW leaders early this claiming various improprieties, but the new NUHW claims that nearly 100,000 workers statewide have petitionedf to leave what Rosselli’sd group calls “the scandal-plagued and join the new union.
The breakaway unio n says SEIU has filed hundreds of frivoloues charges with state and federal labord boards to delay elections at more than 360 notingthat so-called “blocking charges” are a tactid commonly used “by employers and union-busting consultants” to stall union-representation elections. Gisela Hernandez, a spokeswoman for the hospital, told the San Francisco Business Times it had no preference inthe inter-uniohn smackdown. “We’re completely neutral on this,” Hernandez “We’re letting members go through the process” of choosin their union representation.