HobbesRN

I think there are a lot of issues that we see as the same. And, I'm not really clear on SEIU in California--I believe there is even some issues within the organization itself which has caused some rifts. Rumor has it that United Healthcare West was i...

As a labor organizer, you know that not everyone is going to be thrilled with every decision, organization, situation....come on! I can name any number of instances of dissatisfaction with CNA/NNOC tactics as verbalized on any number of blogs. One pe...

Please---SEIU didn't start this 'intercine struggle with other members of the labor movement' in Ohio. You're preaching to the choir by stating the obvious need to focus on our objective---we were very focused on that objective until CNA/NNOC provoke...

And, AGAIN, for the hundredth time, CNA/NNOC could have been on A BALLOT if they had done the legwork....and, they didn't! We DID vote SEIU in 10 years ago....and, we have DOUBLED our union membership at our hospital. There is NO contested election ...

i had answered all these arguments, but it got lost while loading, so i'll try this again-- signing cards is not the only way to a union vote--and it's a lengthy, emotional and stressful process. seiu believes it has the support of chp employees to d...

that's a very valid point and would be true, had it not been for the confusion caused by the disruption of the process by a third party---cna.

How do you know for a fact that the video you're talking about wasn't doctored?? And, if, in fact, all those accounts were factual and not fiction, why did the California Supreme Court vacate the restraining order against SEIU that CNA had dramatical...

per nicurn001- i find it incomprehensible that if union has the degree of support it needs to apply for a representation vote , it would partner with management and allow management to file for the vote , why did not the seiu not simply ask the empl...

That restraining order was found to be baseless and overturned yesterday by the California Supreme Court.....well, not baseless---actually based on lies and misrepresentations. Read about it: www.ShameOnCNA.com

3,000 Ohio RN's, along with over 5,000 non-union CHP employees, were DEPRIVED of that choice because of CNA's actions. CNA could have been on that ballot if they had submitted ONE SIGNED CARD--they didn't do that. This was a free and fair election pr...

Here's another point of view-- and this isn't the perspective of the CHP nurses who were illegally approached by CNA operatives on the premises of their employers in Ohio. That's a whole other story! CNA has distorted the facts and employed fear tact...

WHO did they rescue? Certainly not the 5,000 non-RN employees of CHP! They prevented over 8.000 CHP employees from having their say in a free and fair election--- SEIU is a social union, concerned with, among other social issues, 'nurses professional...

that hardly seems like a 'rant'....rather, it appears to be a statement that depicts cna as the 'union buster' it is. here's the response by the california courts this afternoon to some of cna's histrionics: week of 4/21 talking points on seiu and cn...

You are SO misinformed....Can you quote some sources for those statements? I'm very curious... That election was the culmination of 10 years of SEIU work to organize CHP employees. SEIU demanded that CHP recognize them as the bargaining agent for the...

That election would have gone forward if it weren't for CNA's union busting.....

So, CNA/NNOC isn't accountable for it's actions as an organization? That's not playing fair in open forum? But, SEIU is fair game? This is supposed to be an open forum, but apparently only if it's forum for CNA/NNOC recruiting? It's obvious that you...

As many of us have said before, there is more than one way to organize workers and card signing is only one of them. Bloggers on this site keep referring to 'card signing'---that's not the method used to organize this group. And, it's not the only me...

The 'facts' are that SEIU worked with those workers for YEARS. They absolutely did do their job. Their campaign started with our unit 10 years ago. CNA swooped in a few days before the vote to disrupt that process. Of those 8,000 workers, CNA's inter...

democracy doesn't have to be messy in an enlightened community. that's hardly an 'enlightened' comment on that quote--

That's a totally inappropriate comparison- especially if you've actually worked to organize a union, rather than the relatively easy work of busting a union. We, in partnership with our union, SEIU, have worked diligently and with success to impro...

Excuse me?? Who's confused? Not me--I am an RN, work for CHP, and a member of SEIU. I certainly have the personal experience to determine that SEIU has done it's job. Where are you getting your 'facts?' Personal experience or CNA? Another example of...

You are SO wrong!! If CNA truly wanted to educate the nurses, they would've been there 3 weeks before, not 3 days before. Their goal was to confuse and alarm the workers. This campaign started 10 years ago. It was no big secret. CNA organizers actu...

There are other ways to form a union--and this was one of them. The point was to avoid the ugliness as much as possible to get to an election. But, CNA provided the ugliness. There's no 'back door deal'---that's just the propaganda used by CNA to jus...

That's a pretty naive statement---if you really believe that. What they did was inexcusable---and this is just another rationalization.

Do you have facts to back up that statement? If those employees (not just nurses) didn't want a union--or wanted a union--they lost the opportunity to voice their opinion in a free and fair election. Again--there's no justification for the action of ...