[pickledpepperRN]

I’ve learned in this forum about activist anti union nurses.
The web sites they post have links to the National Right to Work Committee.

I googled and Yahooed them and to my knowledge they are a bunch of attorneys working for big corporations to stop employees from organizing. Seems this group has fought in court and defies court orders to divulge where their funding comes from.

A small percent of their funding sources is known. The Walton Family Foundation gave RTW $15,000 a year from 2000 to 2002. They received $3.64 million in grants from 1991 to 2003 from a variety of sources — primarily the John M. Olin Foundation Inc (largest manufacturer of ammunition in the U.S.A.)., which gave $1,985,000, according to www.mediatransparency.org .
But that is a small amount compared to the $15 million a year budget made possible by secret corporate backers.

Most disturbing for us in California is Michael Grebe of the Bradley Foundation. He was CEO of the Hospital Association (CHA) which has fought against safe staffing since 1976 when we, the CNA, lobbied for and won critical care ratios of two or fewer patients per nurse in critical care units. In addition to spending money and effort to fight against safe staffing the CHA opposed the Whistleblower protection law, and opposed the law that requires a telephone advice nurse to be licensed.

Bradley funded the author of the “Bell Curve”. Remember that book claiming minorities are inherently inferior?

Then there was the NRTWC claim that unions, including firefighter unions, tried to use national emergencies to “grab more power”. Accusing firefighters and paramedic unions of “presenting a clear and present danger to the security of the United States"

http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/fmnsyb5.htm
Foundation Executive Previous Position
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Michael W. Grebe
President (Beginning July 2002) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Foley & Lardner(Until July 2002)

http://www.calhealth.org/public/chpac/pres.html
CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Corporate Donors
Foley & Lardner LLP
2029 Century Park East, Suite 3500
Los Angeles, CA 90067
310.277.2223
Fax: 310.557.8475
cweissburg@foley.com
www.foley.com

California Hospital Association Files Appeal Seeking to Overturn Nurse Ratio Ruling - March 17, 2005 (pdf) - http://www.calhealth.org/public/pres...se%2031605.pdf

Harry Bradley
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php...ley_Foundation

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, according to The Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, was giving away more than $30 million per year. (http://www.mediatransparency.org/fun...php?funderID=1 )
"The overall objective of the Bradley Foundation, however, is to return the U.S. -- and the world -- to the days before governments began to regulate Big Business, before corporations were forced to make concessions to an organized labor force. In other words, laissez-faire capitalism: capitalism with the gloves off.

http://www.mediatransparency.org/fun...php?funderID=1

Bradley is also a heavy funder of University of California Regent Ward Connerly and his American Civil Rights Institute. Connerly was a leading figure in the anti-affirmative action campaign in California. Ward Connerly is a Black man who has dedicated his career to ensuring that white men are not discriminated against.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NGENASPGV1.DTL

http://www.annonline.com/interviews/...biography.html

Charles Murray is the Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention with Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, the controversial analysis of the reforms of the 1960s. This was followed in 1988 by In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government. In 1994, he and the late Richard J. Herrnstein published The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, one of the most widely debated works of social science in recent decades.

http://www.srv.net/~msdata/bell.html

[pickledpepperRN]

I forgot to add these links:

http://www.nrtw.org/

http://www.calhealth.org/public/chpac/index.html

http://www.calhealth.org/public/pres...se%2031605.pdf

http://www.calhealth.org/public/pres...30,%202003.pdf

http://www.uaw.org/solidarity/05/0605/feature06.cfm

[Sherwood]

Wow Spacenurse, it seems you have already done a lot of research and posted all the information you liked. You have asked the question, then gave the answers you wanted everyone to hear.

I have found the National Right to Work to be a very helpful organization providing me and many of my friends with information on my legal rights as an employee dealing with union and non-union matters.
When the SEIU and the CNA used the "Neutrality Agreement" to block my employers ability to provide me with information on my rights as an employee when dealing with union organizers I turned to the NRTW organization. They provided me with all kinds of very helpful information on my rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
The CNA invaded my hospital, they flooded us with their dogma, their promises. Because of the neutrality agreement my employers were not allowed to counter any of it. The CNA had struck a deal that I knew from the start was not to my benefit or the benefit of my coworkers. I set out to get the information myself and campaigned hard against the CNA and SEIU.
Because of what I learned and what I shared with my coworkers we beat the CNA in an election held on their terms! Despite voting them out, the CNA filed numerous ULP's (unfair labor practice complaints) against my employer in an attempt to throw out the results of the election and unionize my hospital AGAINST THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY!
I turned to the National Right to Work Organization for assistance. They provided me with a lawyer free of charge, who took my case and we filed charges against the CNA. A few days later all ULP's were dropped and the results of the election were certified. A copy of the charges can be found on my website at www.stopunions.com.
I felt all along that the Neutrality Agreement was illegal and later with help from the NRTW it was found to be illegal and the CNA was forced to leave Whittier Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles County. The CNA was also required to refund any dues they collected under this illegal neutrality agreement.

Thank you,
Sherwood

[pickledpepperRN]

CNA does not collect dues for representation at a facility until the represented nursesapprove a contract by a majority vote.

I check out the CNA web site often. I believe if there had been a contract at Whittier it would have been posted.

[Sherwood]

Originally Posted by spacenurse

CNA does not collect dues for representation at a facility until the represented nursesapprove a contract by a majority vote.

I check out the CNA web site often. I believe if there had been a contract at Whittier it would have been posted.

So what your saying is that I was wrong implying that the CNA actually was able to bargain a contract that the majority of the Nurses were able to approve? The CNA failed and no dues were ever collected?

What actually happened then was that the Nurses at Whittier Hospital voted in the CNA in hopes that the union could bargain a contract on their behalf for better wages and working conditions then they already had. The CNA, during the time they represented Whittier hospital nurses failed at this. To compound the failure, the NRTW lawyers representing a nurse employed by Whittier Hospital were able to prove that the neutrality agreement that the CNA formed with Tenet Healthcare, former owners of Whittier Hospital was illegal and violated the nurses rights under NLRB laws. This illegal contract was cause for overturning the results of the vote that got the CNA in the hospital in the first place.
The CNA was forced out of Whittier Hospital because of an illegal contract that they themselves formed and demanded. The NRTW proved that the contract was illegal.

Thank you for pointing out my error and allowing me to clear that up,

Sherwood

[Thunderwolf]

He stated in 1997, “The University of California hospitals do not exist for the purpose of patient care. They exist to educate physicians. Nurses are a regrettable but necessary expense.”

Ever wonder why our hospitals are in the shape they are in?.......now I know why!
The man should be tarred and feathered for such statements.

[Sherwood]

Originally Posted by Thunderwolf

He stated in 1997, “The University of California hospitals do not exist for the purpose of patient care. They exist to educate physicians. Nurses are a regrettable but necessary expense.”

Ever wonder why our hospitals are in the shape they are in?.......now I know why!
The man should be tarred and feathered for such statements.

Can site a source for that quote? I would love to read it.

Thank you,

Sherwood

[Spidey's mom]

Originally Posted by Thunderwolf

He stated in 1997, “The University of California hospitals do not exist for the purpose of patient care. They exist to educate physicians. Nurses are a regrettable but necessary expense.”

Ever wonder why our hospitals are in the shape they are in?.......now I know why!
The man should be tarred and feathered for such statements.

Hi Thunderwolf - who the heck is "he"? I'm really curious.

steph

[Sheri257]

Originally Posted by Sherwood

What actually happened then was that the Nurses at Whittier Hospital voted in the CNA in hopes that the union could bargain a contract on their behalf for better wages and working conditions then they already had. The CNA, during the time they represented Whittier hospital nurses failed at this.

Uh ... this doesn't make much sense By your own account, and according to your own website, CNA got you more money than you would on your own.

http://www.stopunions.com/the_math.htm

So ... how did CNA fail to negotiate better wages? According to your website, they did.

[Thunderwolf]

The quote is straight from Spacenurse's post...you must have bypassed it.