Finding Sal Rosselli video makes South Park look sophisticated!

My oh my! The production values and cheesy "graphics" (if you can call them that) makes the animation on South Park seem on the cutting edge of animation technology. For my readers without an adolescent and crude sense of humor, South Park is an animated television program that, like SEIU, pushes the limits of decency, but unlike SEIU offers scathing social commentary, all while using sub-par animation. The horribly designed video and the clearly under-informed members speaking their "minds" attest to the quality of work of SEIU and the willingness of some to believe a perceived authority without question or comprehension.

As for NUHW not answering the door, my guess is they were out running circles around the Zombies while the Zombies were busy slapping members around or spreading lies about the $3 million that was "stolen" (not stolen just moved to another account, read the referenced E-Board meeting minutes).

Zombies catch election fever

A little background to explain why the Zombies are all of a sudden struck with election fever.

Post-trusteeship, the former leaders of UHW formed NUHW and quickly got down to the task of orchestrating the members gathering signatures for decertification of the newly Zombie-fied UHW. The Zombies naturally filed blocking charges to slow down, frustrate and hold their members hostage indefinitely. It appears that Zombies took stock of what they had to deal with (an underdog union supported by devoted UHW members dying to get out of the Zombies deathgrip, more than 100 community and political leaders supporting a fair and free from intimidation election, and losing 7 out of 9 elections in 2009) and reasoned that if they are going to win an election this year they had better focus their efforts on facilities where NUHW support is weaker, hence their appeal to the NLRB. NUHW viewed this as the Zombies trying to manipulate election scheduling, which ought to be handled by the NLRB with no bias for any party, be it union or employer, and tried to appeal to the NLRB's sense of reason. Unfortunately this request was not honored and the Zombies view NUHW's actions as being anti-member. Lame for sure.

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Shown below is the Zombies attempt to prove substantial member backing for their desperate plea in getting NUHW to back off decert elections.  The astute reader will notice a none-too-clever attempt by the Zombies to increase the number of signatures.

A quick glance at the signatures in the right hand column shows that the first 5 listed are the same as the last 5! C'mon Zombies at least move the signatures around a little bit and make me work a bit for these blog
-entries...you make it too easy! I guess the proofreader was at lunch when this gem was pushed out via the UHW Report. Tasty over at Stern Burger with Fries, notes that this leaves 52 unique signatures. I wonder about the authenticity of these unique signatures since I am not able to match signatures to faces of people I know. Given the Zombies propensity for deceit it seems reasonable that some of these signatures could be forgeries.

So 52 signatures at 51 facilities...does this mean that there is one signature for 50 facilities and a staggering 2 for the remaining facility? Or did the Zombie(s) charged with collecting these signatures get smart and visit just a few facilities to round up a bunch of signatures? Either way the Zombies are desperate to publicize the names of their few supporters, no matter how pathetic that support looks. How pathetic could their support be? Heh heh heh, read on.

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The Zombies, being a shifty group of sellouts, scabs and fighters fond of backhanding actually make things a whole lot worse for themselves by issuing a press release about most of the facilities where elections are soon to be scheduled.

When one compares the list of facilities shown in the open letter to those shown in the press release a number of discrepancies appear. First off are the facilities that appeared in the open letter but are not shown in the press release:

• Brookside Skilled Nursing Hospital
• Emerald Gardens Nursing Center
• Gilroy Healthcare and Rehab Center
• Golden Living Center - Fresno
• Grant Cuesta Sub-Acute and Rehab Center
• Heritage Care Center
• Home for Jewish Parents
• McClure Convalescent
• Northgate Care Center
• Palo Alto Nursing Center
• St. Francis Convalescent Pavilion
• St. Francis Heights Convalescent Hospital
• Valley Point Nursing Center
• Willow Tree Nursing Center

Is this an oversight or more likely a realization that these 14 facilities are still very much pro NUHW?

Second are the facilities they've added:

• Centinela Hospital Medical Center (Inglewood)
• Clovis Convalescent Hospital
• Creekside Care Center (Heritage) (Stockton)
• Enloe Medical Center (Crothall)
• In-Home Supportive Services Consortium (San Francisco)
• O'Connor Hospital (San Jose)
• Prison Health Services (Dublin)
• Saint Louise Regional Hospital (Gilroy)
• St. Francis Medical Center (Lynwood)
• Sutter Delta Medical Center (Antioch)
• Sutter Eden Medical Center (Castro Valley)
• Sutter Solano Medical Center (Vallejo)
• Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center (Hayward)

They have picked up 13 facilities totaling 4,080 members. Looks good for the Zombies, right? Well I have 3 things for you to keep in mind:

1. in the press release, the number of members shown after each facility doesn't indicate support for the Zombies; it's merely a count of the number of workers eligible to vote,
2. in the open letter, the number of workers at the 14 facilities listed above don't show their member count so a net loss or gain in voters is impossible to determine, and
3. net loss for facilities: 1

When one considers the open letter and the press release a startling fact can be derived: of the 6715 voting member, just 52 signed the open letter. That's just 0.77% -- less than one percent and folks, that's messed up. Zombies: if members are truly happy with your dismal representation, where's the support to back it up? There is virtually no member support for staying with the Zombies, period. At Memorial you lost badly: 21 NUHW votes for each SEIU vote. How badly do you think you are going to go down in this dress rehearsal for the Kaiser election this June? Tasty was right: math is hard!

One good swipe deserves another

If you get the UHW Report you'll notice they never write about their election losses, until now. The quote below is from their report dated January 28, 2010. What strikes me as odd is they look down on the workers who chose NUHW by a cumulative ratio of 6:1. Specifically they state that "NUHW has put these workers at grave risk for their own purposes". Nevermind that the Zombies have already done this!

Small Kaiser Group Votes to Take Risk with NUHW

Ballots counted Tuesday, January 26 in an election among 2,300 Kaiser professionals, psych-social workers, and RNs show that those workers voted to leave SEIU-UHW to join NUHW. The election only affects this small group in Southern California and not the nearly 50,000 other SEIU-UHW members at Kaiser who are launching the biggest and most active statewide contract campaign in history.

NUHW has put these workers at grave risk for their own purposes. These workers had their raises and benefits locked in for almost two years. Now, they will have to re-bargain their contract on their own in this economic crisis--at the same time Kaiser is cutting healthcare and other costs among management and non-union workers.

Over the past year, 53,464 SEIU members have chosen to stay united in SEIU-UHW for better wages, healthcare, and other benefits. Only 2,600, including the recent Kaiser workers, have chosen NUHW, which still has no members under contract and few resources to fight for workers

Funny how they spin a staggering defeat into a sour grapes-ish look at those poor unfortunate souls! I wonder what they'll say when the next defeat is handed to them by the members they so boldly claim to "represent". Faithful readers of the Report will notice not one word was written when they lost the Memorial election.

About face, SEIU style (part 2)

Perhaps the UHW is member led once again. Or maybe it's the tail wagging the dog? Either way it seems Karen Timmons' about face was a preview of things to come at the House of Zombies. The Zombies have long relied on filing charges with the NLRB to slow down the pace of elections. Since the landslide victory against them at Memorial, they have been looking for a way to eck out a win, no matter how dumb the method makes them look. Fear not readers, they've found a way to do just that: beg the NLRB to rescind the blocking charges they filed! Turns out they have had a change in their black hearts and now want elections to happen as soon as possible. One wonders why the Zombies have decided to have the election for these 4000 workers go forth after trying so hard to keep them for voting. I suggest reading Sierra Spartan's poignant write up and the comments that follow.

Shown below is the Zombies lame press release. It's worth noting that this press release is really a members' dues financed ad for UHW; nobody anywhere is willing to write about their false-truths and backwards accomplishments. What does this tell us about the Zombies standing in the world?

Management whines about election results; Empire Report hits back hard

Wow, what a great piece of writing! Empire Report's Michael Aparicio rips management's allegations up one side and down the other with such ease and finesse. Get ready for a good belly laugh! Management's allegations are as hilarious as they are pitiful. Memo to management: the harder you try to fight the will of the workers the harder the community will fight back, and we way out-number you!

Guess who's contesting the NUHW victory at Memorial?

For once it's not the Zombies. Nor it is the Memorial Bridge folks with their close-but-who-really-cares second place finish. It's the workers "best friend"...management! These are the folks who laid off 200 employees in February, just days after the trusteeship, and then hired them back at cut throat rates, with no health insurance, vacation time, or sick time. I'm just sayin'...lest we forget.

Memo to management: you lost, get over it. The workers voted and once the NLRB resolves the 17 contested votes your job is to either work with NUHW or go back to business as usual.