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  • NLRB judge finds Kaiser election flawed

    July 25th, 2011

    WASHINGTON — The largest union vote to take place in over 70 years may have to be done all over again, after an administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board recommended the results between two quarreling unions be set aside.

  • NLRB rules for union at Memorial Hospital

    December 30th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — The National Labor Relations Board has certified the National Union of Healthcare Workers as the bargaining representative for about 700 technical, service and maintenance employees at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

  • Thousands of Kaiser employees start union vote

    September 13th, 2010

    NORTH BAY – Kaiser Permanente employees throughout Northern California begin voting today in a costly, high-stakes election that will likely determine the influence of two quarreling unions, each seeking to represent nearly 44,000 workers.

  • NLRB sets Kaiser union vote

    August 2nd, 2010

    NORTH BAY, CALIFORNIA – Kaiser Permanente employees throughout the region will be able to officially vote on whether to remain with the Service Employees International Union – United Healthcare Workers West, the union that currently is in place, or join its rival offshoot, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, the National Labor Relations Board announced today.

  • NLRB expected to rule on election for Kaiser workers

    August 2nd, 2010

    NORTH BAY — Kaiser Permanente employees across Northern California could have a chance to choose between two quarreling unions as early as next week.

  • Memorial Hospital files challenge to decision for NUHW

    June 11th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital today announced it filed a challenge to a judge’s recent ruling that sided with the National Union of Healthcare Workers in the long-standing labor dispute.

  • Union wins right to represent hospital workers

    June 2nd, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — The National Labor Relations Board has sided with the National Union of Healthcare Workers in a long-standing labor dispute with Memorial Hospital.

  • Memorial Hospital election set after long union battle

    November 9th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The last-minute scheduling of a union election for about 600 Memorial hospital workers came as a bitter-sweet surprise last Monday morning, even within the context of a high-pitched battle between two Northern California unions.

  • Health care unions clash

    October 12th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – With a six-year unionization effort at stake, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital has become a battlefield in a rivalry between national labor giant Service Employees International Union and a fledgling group of its former Northern California leaders.
    In April, about 600 hospital nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, radiology and other health care-related technicians were on track to schedule a union election under a petition with the new group, the National Union of Healthcare Workers. But at the final hour, SEIU intervened and stalled proceedings.

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