Federal Agency to Prosecute SEIU and Local Hospital for Rigging Union Card Check ‘Vote’

Union organizers enter into corrupt agreement with hospital to force healthcare workers into union ranks using coercive card check tactics

Orange, California (June 27, 2012) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Regional Director in Los Angeles has authorized the issuance of a complaint against a major healthcare union and hospital officials for forcing workers to accept an unwanted union in the workplace.

With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, Marlene Felter of Costa Mesa filed charges with the NLRB after Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Workers West officials and Chapman Medical Center colluded to illegally rig a union organizing «vote» to pave the way for the union to claim to «represent» the workers.

SEIU officials and Chapman Medical Center management entered into a backroom deal, known as a so-called «neutrality agreement,» in which company officials granted union operatives access to company facilities to conduct a coercive «card check» organizing campaign, and waived the right to have a federally-supervised secret ballot election to determine whether employees wished to be unionized. Union organizers frequently use «card check» organizing tactics to bribe, browbeat, or cajole workers into forced-union-dues payments against their will.

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The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in more than 250 cases nationwide per year.