North Bay Business Journal

Nurses, NUHW hold daylong Kaiser strike

NORTH BAY — The National Union of Healthcare Workers is holding a day-long strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities throughout Northern California, including hospitals in Santa Rosa, San Rafael, Vallejo and Vacaville, as the union negotiates a new contract with the health system.

NUHW, nurses unions strike at Kasier, Sutter facilities

NORTH BAY — Union employees at Kaiser Permanente facilities throughout the state were joined by the California Nurses Association in staging a strike to protest proposed cuts in benefits.

NUHW, nurses union threaten Kaiser with strike

NORTH BAY — The National Union of Healthcare Workers has issued official notice to Kaiser Permanente that its 4,000 workers across the state intend on to hold strikes next week starting Sept. 21 because of disagreements over ongoing contract negotiations.

NLRB: Re-run of union elections at Kaiser

NORTH BAY — The National Labor Relations Board has issued an order that will lead to a re-run of an election held in the fall of 2010 for some 43,500 employees of Kaiser Permanente in California.

NLRB judge finds Kaiser election flawed

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

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.

Kaiser workers vote to stay with SEIU

[Updated: 4 p.m.] CALIFORNIA — Kaiser Permanente employees throughout the state voted to remain with the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West instead of joining its rival offshoot, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

NUHW is considering a legal challenge to the election.

Kaiser employees can vote on union

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 last week.

NLRB sets Kaiser union vote

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

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

Unions battle for Kaiser representation

NORTH BAY — The National Union of Healthcare Workers has petitioned for elections that would determine whether thousands of employees at Kaiser Permanente facilities could vote to join the upstart union or remain with the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West.

Memorial Hospital files challenge to decision for NUHW

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

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.

NUHW favored in challenges to ballots; hospital objections remain

SANTA ROSA — Challenges to 17 ballots in the disputed union election at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital have been resolved in favor of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, although objections by the hospital to the election process are still under investigation by federal labor officials.

Memorial union election decision awaited

SANTA ROSA — A series of ballot challenges to determine who was eligible to vote in the Dec. 17-18 union election at St. Joseph Health System’s Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital has delayed a final tally and certification of the election by the National Labor Relations Board until after Dec. 29, according to Tim Peck, assistant regional director with the NLRB in San Francisco.

Memorial Hospital election set after long union battle

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

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.