we have talked about SEIU here in past

sjoe · Nov 16, 2002

"What we have found time and time again is that the locals that are single-industry locals are the ones that succeed. They're the ones that win for our members," Tom Hoffman, a co-trustee of Local 585, said yesterday."

It isn't a matter of being single-industry or not, but of how much and in what areas the union supports its PAYING members.

My experience has been that SEIU:

1) is even less responsive to members than facility management,

2) it supports pay and benefits to some degree but

3)will not stand up against abusive and/or incompetent management.

My experience with CNA has been even worse--they are all but useless--and this is a single-industry union.

Give me the Teamsters any time, since management repeatedly shows it responds only to fear.

rebelwaclause, ASN, RN · Nov 23, 2002

CNA Useless?...Really? (I'm really asking a question - Not trying to be funny or sarcastic!).

CNA always seem to be so "member" oriented. They DOG SEIU every chance they get, which I guess in retrospect is an attempt to protect its own.

Point #3 about SEIU is EVERY true! Why is that?

Good post SJoe!

-jt · Nov 24, 2002

Because they have what they call a "partnership" with their hospitals wherein they & the hospitals agreed to interact in a less confrontational manner towards each other & in return, the hospitals agreed to not interfer with the union's organizing at their facilities. Some people have criticized these partnership. If youre interested, you can find a lot of articles about it if you do a search for "Seiu partnerships".