Cook Co. Healthcare Workers File to Join with RNs in NNOC

Yes. The Caregivers union is an affiliate.
I think it is small compared to the 85 thousand RNs represented by CNA. There are a few hospitals in the Los Angeles, San Diego, central, and Northern California where our colleagues are in the CHEU union.
They have a separate bargaining team and contract. I believe the benefits are the same as the RNs at their hospital. They have their own labor representatives. The RNs have a different representative.
It is good for our colleagues, especially LVNs, CNAs, monitor techs, and unit secretaries to be together for our patients. Respiratory and others too.
I met an LVN who is a leader at her hospital.

http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2006/june/page.jsp?itemID=27894938&print=t

http://www.allbusiness.com/health-care/health-care-facilities-hospitals/6188858-1.html

Yes. The Caregivers union is an affiliate.
I think it is small compared to the 85 thousand RNs represented by CNA. There are a few hospitals in the Los Angeles, San Diego, central, and Northern California where our colleagues are in the CHEU union.
They have a separate bargaining team and contract. I believe the benefits are the same as the RNs at their hospital. They have their own labor representatives. The RNs have a different representative.
It is good for our colleagues, especially LVNs, CNAs, monitor techs, and unit secretaries to be together for our patients. Respiratory and others too.
I met an LVN who is a leader at her hospital.

http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2006/june/page.jsp?itemID=27894938&print=t

http://www.allbusiness.com/health-ca...6188858-1.html

CHEU looks to have about 2500 members- a lot less than the RN membership of CNA.
Sorry- but at least for now, it looks like a different union only on paper- a division of CNA created to represent workers other than RNs. Different staff might be assigned to the "healthcare workers", but they are employed by CNA. CHEU lists no employees, only unpaid officers and shows no assets of its own.
Wonder who retains the power to hire or fire the staff that services these members- CNA or the officers of CHEU?
Setting it up this way enables CNA to negotiate with the employer separately for each group....interesting

I was wondering the same thing and the only conclusion I can come up with is, and I may be way off, that they HAVE to split it up because one of the CNA's main messages is that they're a union of nurses, by nurses, for nurses. Adding other healthcare workers goes directly against that message so they need to split them up, even if only by name, to retain that mentality.

Then again, I may be way off base there.