After a long and vicious feud, it seems CNA and SEIU bosses have finally buried the hatchet... in the backs of independent nurses:
Two of the nation’s fastest-growing labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association — ended a bitter yearlong dispute on Wednesday by agreeing to work together to unionize hospital workers and push for universal health coverage.
For the last year, the two unions have viciously denounced each other, with the service employees accusing the nurses of sabotaging efforts to organize 8,300 hospital workers in Ohio, and the nurses’ union accusing S.E.I.U. officials of stalking and harassing its leaders.
“We have buried the hatchet,” said Rose Ann DeMoro, president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.
So the SEIU and CNA bosses have tabled their ugly little internecine war to focus on what's REALLY important to them -- corralling more nurses into forced-dues-paying ranks!
Given the circumstances, we're not too suprised by this touching reconciliation. The heart of the CNA-SEIU feud -- CNA criticisms of coercive SEIU organizing tactics -- was pretty much a dead letter after CNA operatives were implicated in the exact same practices at Houston and Philadelphia-area hospitals. For those of you who missed it, here's the Foundation's video report on coercive CNA organizing abuses in Texas:
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nurses
Let me see these misinformed nurses are probly leads ie
supervisors correct why sure they are !
And in a right to work state to boot so from that i can,
tell there making 3-5 dollars an hour less than most nurses.
Now i lived in a right to work stae FLA where my mother is a nurse let me tell you ok you guys need to give it up its gonna happen whether the few misinformed nurses want it or not.
And its about time heres an idea lets get rid of all the right to work states and leave one as a right to work.
Lets just see how many nurses stay there.
You know where the best teachers are thats right you got it up north you know why the best teachers are there -
right better pay ie UNION versus NO pay right to work south.Tell me and all my mothers friends who are nurses were lying. i helped organise the VA hospitals in houston those ladies were so glad to see us and i wll be more than glad to discusswhat they told me about the fine health care in houston. And the lexus driving fat cat bosses.
How can someone who writes
How can someone who writes like this call anyone uninformed. By the way the "lexus driving fat cat bosses", are the Union bosses. Your union menbership is not free, those extra dollars you get will end up right on the unions banks. Only those who dont have to deal directly with union, believe all the garbage. If most of you could see exactly how much goes into Union pockets, you would be really sick.
re: nurses
I find that I cannot take seriously a post as incoherent as this.
There was a remark about the best teachers being in the North. Having been through the public school system in Illinois, I have to say this is not true. Much of what I should have learned in school I learned after I left it. Either on my own or with the help of people who actually know how to teach.
As far as union versus non-union pay, I am reminded of when I applied to work for both UPS and FedEx. The non-union FedEx offered better pay. And this was before factoring in how much the union would take out of each paycheck.
I still have yet to see any benefit to being in a union.
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