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Houston Nurses File Decert Petition to Eject Unwanted Union

Will Collins — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:01:03 -0400

Regular Freedom@Work readers may remember the Foundation's ongoing efforts to help Houston nurses fight back against a coercive organizing scheme hatched by Tenet Healthcare Corporation and the California Nurses Association union bosses. We're pleased to report that the Foundation's charges have forced union officials to stop their illegal and coercive organizing efforts at two area hospitals. Not only that, but independent nurses have filed a union decertification petition at a third location. From the Foundation's press release:

Hospital Employee Challenges Employer's Backroom Deal with Union Operatives

Will Collins — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:28:16 -0400

Regular Freedom@Work readers may remember the Foundation's ongoing efforts helping nurses fight back against the California Nurses Association (CNA) union's coercive organizing drives at Houston and Philadelphia-area healthcare facilities.

Now an employee at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia has again stepped forward, filing unfair labor practice charges against Tenet Healthcare Corporation for giving CNA operatives preferential access to company property for the purposes of union organizing. Previous Foundation unfair labor practice charges also allege union organizers are engaging in illegal prerecognition bargaining: in exchange for company assistance, union officials may have agreed to terms and conditions of employment on behalf of workers they don't even have the power to represent yet.

Bickering Union Bosses Quit Feuding to Ramp Up Coercive Organizing

Will Collins — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:10:38 -0400

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.

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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.

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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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Video: Inter-Union Scuffle Erupts, Elderly Woman Knocked to the Ground

Justin Hakes — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:05:20 -0400

News today of more squabbling between SEIU and CNA union officials. A dispute over reigning roughly 8,000 Ohio nurses, and their forced union dues, into compulsory unionism led to a fight at a banquet.

As you can watch described below, not only did union operatives throw punches, hit people with signs, and link arms to block out the arriving police, but an elderly woman was also knocked to the ground.