SEIU Says Ohio Nurses Election Is No Sweetheart Deal, Effort Is Three Years Old - 03/14/08
13th March 2008
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Loading ...By Doug Cunningham
The SEIU says its efforts to unionize Ohio nurses at Catholic Healthcare Partners is not a top-down sweetheart deal with the employer, but a legitimate effort. An election that had been scheduled for this week was called off. The California Nurses Association says nurses at the hospital chain didn’t know about the deal SEIU reached with the employer. SEIU’s Dave Regan says that’s not true. He says it took three years of effort, including protests by hundreds of workers to get the union election. Several nurses at Catholic healthcare Partners wrote an open letter to CNA Executive Director Rose Ann Demoro saying they've worked with SEIU for three years to get a union at the hospital chain. The nurses say the CNA sent a "bullying staff' to Ohio to destroy what they've worked so hard to build. The CNA is competing with SEIU to organize the nurses at the Catholic Healthcare Partners hospital chain.