Texas

New Right to Work Video: Houston Nurses Fight Union Bosses' Secret Backroom Deal

Will Collins — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:54:46 -0500

The Foundation's latest Right to Work video report features two outstanding and principled nurses from Houston, Texas. When California Nurses Association union bosses and the Tenet Medical Corporation cut a backroom deal to unionize several Houston-area health care facilities, they set up sham election procedures and imposed a gag rule to block any discussion by nurses of the downsides of unionization. Several nurses turned to the National Right to Work Foundation for help:

Houston Nurses Derail Union Sham Election

Will Collins — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:29:49 -0500

In another egregious example of Top Down union organizing, California Nurse Association (CNA) union officials and Tenet Medical Corporation attempted to corral unwilling nurses into union ranks by agreeing to forgo federal supervision during unionization elections.

With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, several nurses filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Now we learn that the NLRB has decided to put the sham "elections" on hold pending an official investigation into the charges. Here's an excerpt from the Foundation's press release:

Foundation Action: Union Bosses, Co-Opted Hospital Scheme to Impose Union

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:58:38 -0400

This story from the September/October issue of Foundation Action reports on the Foundation's efforts on behalf of two nurses who are suffering from a corrupt and illegal agreement between the California Nurses Association (CNA) union and their workplace to force nurses into CNA union ranks.

Read the whole story here (pdf) and sign up today for a free print subscription. To receive the entire issue via email, just type your email address into the box in the top right corner of this page.

EXPOSED: Naked CNA Union Boss Hypocrisy

Patrick Semmens — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:03:09 -0400

Union boss hypocrisy is nothing new, but this recent case, filed by two nurses in Houston, Texas against the CNA union and Tenet Healthcare shows just how blatant that hypocrisy can be.

When the SEIU bosses got themselves a sweetheart deal to organize nurses from the top down with Catholic Healthcare Partners in Ohio, CNA/NNOC denounced the deal as an illegitimate sell out of workers’ rights to a free and fair election, and workers’ rights to choose or reject unionization with full information, and without coercion or discrimination:

Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurses association, condemned this [SEIU] agreement. She called it “a rigged scam” in which the service employees union would bargain only half-heartedly if it won the vote.

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"I work to get paid, I don't pay to work"

Justin Hakes — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:51:45 -0400

The Foundation's ongoing effort to prevent erosion of the 40-year-old Texas Right to Work law widened today with yet another worker named Ramona Trevino standing up to forced union dues.

When will union officials learn that Texans don't want them messing with their Right to Work"

If you haven't yet, take a look at the inspiring story of Juan Vielma, a brave Texan who stood firm on principle against forced union dues in the face of immense pressure. Refusing to cave, Juan told his home town newspaper, "I work to get paid, I don't pay to work."

Couldn't have put it better.