California Nurses’ DeMoro Says SEIU on the Side of the Bosses

Michael Moore has made a great movie.Sicko.

Everyone should see it.

And take the kids.

The movie’s message in a nutshell – we need single payer.

In the United States.

Now.

But Senate Democrats are trying to co-opt the message.

On Capitol Hill today, SEIU held a rally for a couple of hundred health care workers.

The group was addressed by six Senators.

None support single payer.

Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) – does not support single payer.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) – does not support single payer.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) – does not support single payer.

Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) – does not support single payer.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) – does not support single payer.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) – does not support single payer.

We asked Dawn Lee, a spokesperson for SEIU, whether SEIU supported HR 676 – the single payer bill in the House.

She said SEIU takes no position on that bill.

SEIU – does not support single payer.

At the SEIU rally, all spoke in favor of “universal health care.”

That is code for – keep the insurance companies in the game.

Single payer would take them out.

Martese Chism was at a similar rally in Chicago last month.

Chism is a registered nurse at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.

She also sits on the board of the California Nurses Association (CNA).

CNA is pro-single payer.

Chism was attending an SEIU rally in Chicago in support of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s “universal health care” bill that would keep the insurance companies in the game.

Chism says that the SEIU members who gathered for the rally were being actively misled by SEIU.

“SEIU members are being led to believe that universal health care means free health care for all – single payer,” Chism told Corporate Crime Reporter. “But it doesn’t mean that. It means keeping the insurance companies in the game. I had to leave because I couldn’t take it anymore. The insurance companies and SEIU are misleading people.”

CNA executive director Rose Ann DeMoro is a touch less subtle.

“Rather than being on the side of the workers, SEIU continues to be on the side of the bosses,” DeMoro told Corporate Crime Reporter. “And it’s a disgrace.”

“And the problem is that SEIU is giving cover to these Senators – it makes them look like they are accomplishing something when in fact they are accomplishing nothing. These legislators are gutless, and the SEIU is giving them cover.”

DeMoro is using the movie Sicko to generate public support for single payer around the country.

Unfortunately, the powers that be in the Democratic Party are working – with SEIU and other unions – to undermine public support for single payer.

And soon, Michael Moore too will have to choose.

Between single payer – and the corporate Democratic Party’s candidate for President.

That candidate will be – if past is prologue – opposed to single payer.

And the question will remain, as always – which side are you on?

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28 Comments so far

abbybwood June 26th, 2007 12:53 pm

Single payer. The same health care standards for every American as all members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives enjoy.

Same aspirin, same MRI’s, same I.V. solutions, same linens, same medication alternatives, same high quality doctors and nurses, same standards of care….all covered by the fact that we are citizens who live and work here and pay our fair share to do so.

Period. Cradle to the grave care. Whether you’re in The White House or the poor house.

COMarc June 26th, 2007 12:55 pm

Michael Moore and the Colorado Nurses held a rally here in Denver last weekend. I couldn’t make it, so I looked in the crappy corporate paper to see what I could find out.

What I noticed is the subtle switch in names that this article points out. The crappy local corporate newspaper never used the words “single payer”. Instead, they made the subtle switch to “universal health care.” Thus the crappy local corporate paper co-opted Mr. Moore’s real message and subtlely turned it into support for the crappy corporate insurance company health care that the goddamn Democrats are pushing. The crappy corporate paper subtlely morphed Michael Moore into the disgusting crappy corporate Democrats.

I know which side I’m on. And its not with the crappy corporate Democrats.

fd32 June 26th, 2007 1:35 pm

“you must be at least this tall to go on this ride”. Standard carnival litmus test. “you must bow and scrape to your corporate masters to go on this ride”. Standard congressional litmus test.

Yellow Horse June 26th, 2007 1:57 pm

Regardless of what most people are willing to believe; there is very little difference between the Democrats or Republicans. None of us will ever experience (nor have we yet) a true democracy until the corrupt election system is cleaned up. The insurance companies (and big business in general) are major contributors to campaign coffers of both parties. When elected the candidate becomes the office holder, and immediately begins to prepare for re-election, while making decisions in chambers that do the bidding for their major contributors , i.e. big business—and it goes on and on. There will be no relief for anyone until the election system is changed.
A single point would be to simply limit the amount that ANYONE whether individual, corporation, or industry may contribute to an election campaign. This could be limited to $2000.00, per entity, and the single contribution can be to either the party or the candidate, but not both.
This could be considered “limiting free speech” but that is an argument that would be made by the establishment that presently enjoys the advantage. Free speech is inherently limited. If for example one were to say “I’d like to shoot that miserable (expletive) in the White House” this would be considered a threat and the speaker could be jailed. Is that free speech? No it’s not, but limitations are recognized and enforced and therefore so could the limits to contributions made to election campaigns.
Big business has always had the upper hand of control over the politicians. If the people of the USA want a true democracy then they must change what we have now into one. What we have now is a modern form of an “Oligarchy”

If the conservative element actually believe that it is worth thousands of shattered lives, death and destruction on BOTH sides, and billions of tax payers dollars to bring “democracy” to a nation that does not WANT democracy, then why not spend some money at home to clean our own house first. For example the candidates who win the individual primaries would be eligible for federal funds for their campaigns, after they spend their contributions, or the feds could match the contributions, or some other form, OTHER THAT WHAT IS IN USE PRESENTLY.
Then the USA would have the “moral high ground” to “judge others”.

And for the “bible thumper” out there, see
Matt 5:1-7

Yellow Horse

PJD June 26th, 2007 2:12 pm

I’m getting very suspicious of the SEIU and maybe even the whole “change to win” movement they lead. They’re even getting in bed with Wal-Mart management.

Vern June 26th, 2007 2:42 pm

Yellow Horse:

How did campaign contributions ever get defined as “free speech” anyway?

What am I missing? Is the speech part in declaring what the money is given in relation too—and then wouldn’t it constitute a bribe?

This is sort of like the Supreme court strained reasoning for awarding Bush the presidency. I never could see how that could stand up either.

People are out for Cheney in his abuse of power, but what can anyone do about Scalia and the other Supreme court thugs from Trenton NJ?

fedupwithpolitics June 26th, 2007 2:55 pm

I’m not surprised that Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) does not support single payer. Klobuchar is turning into quite the right wing conservative sham–after campaigning as a progressive. She also voted to fund the Iraq war. I hope she doesn’t intend to run again–we don’t need anymore right wingers in Minnesota.

fd32 June 26th, 2007 3:11 pm

fedupwithpolitics,

Be careful before you vote for Al Franken, be very careful. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. A Clinton Democrat in every respect. Pro-business, pro-Israel, Anti-Arab, pro-war, absolutely no moral scruples.

COMarc June 26th, 2007 3:20 pm

Standard operating proceedure for Democrats in general. Talk like a progressive, then go govern too the benefit to your corporate paymasters. Then wait till next election cycle and talk like a progressive again.

To me, the (D) after a name on the ballot basically means ‘no good lying SOB who’s just saying anything to get elected’. Obviously I’m sick of wasting my vote on this scum.

oneguy June 26th, 2007 3:50 pm

Can I get a shout out to IMPEACH CHENEY!!!!

Gene Therapy June 26th, 2007 4:53 pm

It appears that SEIU has been infiltrated by corporate interests … in this case insurance companies.

This is nothing new. I can hardly think of a major organization that originally was counter to some industrial/corporate set of interests that wasn’t ultimately infiltrated by those very corporate interests.

A classic example is the forest products industry — timber and paper — that now has the entire “environmental movement” well within its clutches, including Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society.

Jimmy Higgins June 26th, 2007 5:33 pm

While the rank and file toil away and float the union with our bread and our blood, the union leaders sell us out, just like Bush and Cheney sell us out. The SEIU is US, brothers and sisters. Take back the power! We cannot let them use our voice to speak praise to power. We speak TRUTH to POWER. Insurance companies are a racket and always have been. It is time to take them out of the picture when it comes to our HEALTH. Their structure is designed to KILL US before they have to PAY US. Delay until the insured is no longer insurable. And what good is approval of a procedure once you’re dead? A lawsuit, maybe, that your family can always fight and never win. Their lives taken, bit by bit, in a rigged battle in the Courts where money always prevails and the new Supreme Courtesans are waiting to strike down ANY decision that protects the REAL people of this country! Insurance companies, through their own worship of profits and indifference to their mission of serving and saving people, have brought about their own demise. Shout out the truth about Universal Coverage, and let them know that it is time we were a SINGLE PAYER country.

And, brothers and sisters, let’s take back our Unions. Those at the top who picture themselves as peers of the CEOs around them instead of servants of the Brothers and Sisters on the SHOP FLOOR need to spend some time in the unemployment line and remember where it is they come from!

tj June 26th, 2007 5:48 pm

“CNA executive director Rose Ann DeMoro is a touch less subtle.

‘Rather than being on the side of the workers, SEIU continues to be on the side of the bosses,’ DeMoro told Corporate Crime Reporter. “And it’s a disgrace.”

‘And the problem is that SEIU is giving cover to these Senators – it makes them look like they are accomplishing something when in fact they are accomplishing nothing. These legislators are gutless, and the SEIU is giving them cover.’”

It is refreshing to hear such absolutely clear (and correct) language from a US labor leader. It’s worth looking at the co-optation of the SEIU on this and other issues - as well as much of the US labor movement - in some depth, especially since the SEIU bills itself as the nation’s largest health care union.

In the 1980s, there was a relatively large single-payer movement within US labor unions, primarily concentrated around the large industrial unions like the Autoworkers, Mine Workers and Steelworkers - all vestiges of the old Congress of Industrial Organizations, which became the CIO in the AFL-CIO.

Their position, while narrowly self-interested, was clear and understandable: if health insurance is taken out of the collective bargaining equation, there is more money for things like wages and pensions. And those union negotiators who could count were becoming more aware by the day that health insurance, especially for retirees, would soon become an unbearable cost that the joint union/employer-funded and administered Taft-Hartley benefits funds could not support.

But this consensus among the former CIO unions, especially the Autoworkers, eroded with the decline of their influence within the Democratic Party (as the DLC took over), and the party’s growing internal weakness and growing powerlessness.

And there is this: by the 1980’s, US Taft-Hartley benefits funds and other industrial funds had become the single largest pool of capital in human history. Lots of people in the union bureaucracies benefited directly by becoming fund trustees, administrators, etc. So they had a direct economic incentive to perpetuate a system that would eventually help to contribute to the demise of the US labor movement as a socially progressive (and even relevant) force.

In the case of the SEIU and other unions, the situation is even worse because they own and operate clinics, self-insure their members (often with lousy benefits and high co-pays), etc. The funds for these institutions come from employers in negotiations, so the unions and employers become siamese twins, and the unions’ role of representing the interests of their members is thoroughly corrupted. The ideology of “business unionism,” manifests itself quite concretely.

Meanwhile, flash forward to June 2007 and “Sicko” hits the streets, doing what unions could and should have been doing for decades: pushing universal single-payer health insurance for all.

But Andy Stern, the head of the SEIU, like DLC Democrats, has revealed himself as nothing more than a corporate flack with a luxurious vacation home on the Carolina Shores who (as others have pointed out) shills for Wal-Mart, Republican candidates on many occasions, and the private health care industry and big pharma - even as they destroy the lives of his often low-paid members.

(Many SEIU contracts, especially among low-paid contract cleaning workers and health care workers, have “won” wages slightly above the minimum wage and poor health insurance that only kicks in after working more hours than the bulk of the workers do. These contracts were often achieved after high-visibility “militant” campaigns that threw away power gained in the streets at the bargaining table to promote labor/management “cooperation.

And so De Moro is spot on with her critique: the SEIU - like the majority of US labor unions - continues to be on the side of the bosses while rendering themselves irrelevant, and representative of workers’ interests in name only.

As the movement for single-payer Medicare For All grows, the SEIU and the rest of business labor will eventually jump on, as will the DLC. In the end, it’s a winning movement. And they will claim to have led the struggle. That’s how these things work.

Until that time, the movement for single-payer (much to the enduring shame of those of us who have given our lives and careers to the US union movement) will be driven outside the realm of what is incorrectly called “organized labor.”

Linda Sutton June 26th, 2007 7:23 pm

I would lay odds that it’s only the SEIU leadership that wants universal (corporate-insurance controlled) healthcare. The RANK AND FILE, if they were given a clear choice and told the FACTS about the two, would undoubtably be for SINGLE PAYER. It is the ONLY ONE THAT MAKES SENSE!!!

Many unions suffer from this disconnect with the leaders NOT REPRESENTING their membership…kind of like our electeds don’t represent us either.

So, when union leaders start to whine about the dwindling membership, hey, it’s not ALL because of our corporate media bashing them all the time (although that helps). A great deal of their problem is NOT LISTENING to their constituents….again, a lot like our electeds in Congress.

I’d like to see an organized write-in/call-in to each of our electeds to support the single payer bill that’s before Congress (Conyers/Kucinich–HR676)–read it at govtrack.us. And before writing to your reps, check out opensecret.org and note how much in contributions they’ve gotten from the health industry…and put that in your letter too.
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tj June 26th, 2007 8:16 pm

Linda Sutton:

Your point that union members have little say in their own supposedly-democratic organizations is irrefutable. In many cases, when they do get to vote on contracts, for example, they only see “contract summaries” which are spins of the actual highly-detailed and complex documents. And the devil is always in the details. Many contracts have attached Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) which are secret agreements between union an employer negotiators that members and the general public never see. Sort of like national security directives.

In many other cases, they don’t get to vote on contracts at all, or representatives or shop floor stewards or officers. One of the biggest scandals in labor organizations, is that officers of the two major federations - the AFL-CIO and Change to Win - are not directly elected, but national union officers cast the votes of their membership, much like the undemocratic Electoral College (we often forget amid the noise of political campaigns that US citizens, by our Constitution do not vote for our presidents, but cast advisory votes, which the members of the Electoral College can honor or ignore).

All that said, I don’t have faith that union members, any more than the rest of our population, will act in their own interests when presented the facts.

Let’s take single-payer health insurance. It is not a new concept and has been debated at least since the great debate over Social Security during the last depression. In the 1940’s, I think, there was an up and down vote in the U.S. Congress and single-payer narrowly lost.

It was called “communistic,” which actually it is (or socialistic) and fell to the terror of red-baiting and McCarthyism. Later on, during the Great Society I think, a compromise version was created as Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare has turned out to be a highly successful, efficient and cost-effective program, primarily because it is administered by the federal government (at least until private HMOs became involved).

Medicaid is much more problematic. Although it is funded by a federal/state split, the states administer it in an extremely uneven, incompetent, corrupt and inefficient manner. State politicians and governors are cheaper than federal officials for the private sector to buy, and it is easier for corporations to control states. In many cases, Medicaid is an expensive dysfunctional disaster, but it’s all that most poor folks have in the way of Medical insurance.

Anyway, the point is: all this stuff has been pretty well documented over a long period of time, but people either ignore it because it’s socialism and we can’t do that, don’t care, or are just plain dumb on a massive scale. I think the evidence is overwhelming that consent against your own interests can successfully be manufactured. That’s a huge problem, as are apathy and ignorance.

The good thing about “Sicko” is that id doesn’t just rely on facts, or even present them as a centerpiece; it’s a successful piece of propaganda (putting forward a point of view) that uses a mix of documentary and soap opera tactics to achieve its goals. That is pretty much as far as you can go in the US political arena, where facts don’t matter much - if at all.

Also, we should never underestimate the ceaseless (and more often than you’d think, violent) relentless attacks by corporations and their paid employees in the mainstream media, government and political parties against unions, and even the idea of unions.

This fact does not take off the hook (what passes for) labor leadership for their cowardice, incompetence, ignorance and corruption. It’s simply a reality of living in this society. Class warfare is real, relentless, brutal and the rich and corporations are winning hands down, even as they destroy the possibility of human life on this Earth.

Poet June 26th, 2007 10:24 pm

Vern wonders:

How did campaign contributions ever get defined as “free speech” anyway?

What am I missing? Is the speech part in declaring what the money is given in relation too—and then wouldn’t it constitute a bribe?

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Two things–1)Corporations before our corrupt law and jurisprudence are acorded the status of personhood and 2)corporations lacking any will or volition must “speak” and act throgh paying someone else to advocate their point of view.

Corporations are therefore collective, perpetual, and tyranical asnd their servants are immune from responsibilitiy for what they do in the name of the corporation. Corporations need to be depersonalized by making their principals (the board of directorts, stock holders, and employees)jointly and severally liable as well as criminally responsible for those actions taken by them on behalf of the corporation.

ezeflyer June 26th, 2007 10:48 pm

Sicko starts on Friday. I just checked and luckily it will be showing on ONE out of at least TEN theaters I checked.

bomp June 26th, 2007 10:48 pm

What do you expect from this pathetic undemocratic union. I used to work for SEIU. SEIU are getting used by their ‘leadership’. Their union is a fraud. I couldn’t lie to the members anymore. I couldn’t live off blood money and mouth Andy Stern’s lies anymore. I trust CNA. They are the real deal. Shame on SEIU. Just another corporation. You’ve been warned.

shakker June 27th, 2007 12:16 am

I was always amazed that union leaders could be so chummy on the golf course and at supper clubs with the very business leaders they claimed to be aggressively negotiating worker rights and wages.

xntrk June 27th, 2007 2:04 am

Organized Labor has been on life support since Jimmy Hoffa was forced to testify before Congress back in the 60’s - that was the just about the last blow [unless you count the Flight Controllers in the 80’s]

The Cold War got rid of most of the real union guys by branding them Commies. Hoffa was not a Commie, so he was in bed with the Mafia. The success of this pressure is evident by the total lack of a true labor movement in the US today. There were some fierce battles, but the working guys lost and don’t even know enough about it to complain.

Between McCarthy, The Kennedys, and Reagan there’s not even enough meat on the bones of Labor’s corpse to feed a self-respecting mouse, much less the rats and cockroaches who show up for every election paying off some union boss for his support.

As for Single Payer Health Care, the lovely Ms Clinton took it “off the table” back in the early ’90s when she was supposed to be so gung-ho for ‘Universal Health Care’. It was probably her buddies at the DLC that came up with the phrase ‘it’s off the table’.I guess you could say she did a Pelosi on it before Pelosi was a bad word…

The fact that they both used the same words to deep-six an idea popular with the voting public is indicative of what you can expect from the National Democratic Party.

Unions lost their right to exist when they failed to overturn the Taft Hartley Law, which has been used to take away the right to organize, the right to strike, and allowed the hiring of permanent replacements. Without a revolution, there is no more hope for US Labor then there is for the poor bastards in Chiapis and Oaxaca who are trying to win something for the working class in Southern Mexico.

It’ll be awhile before Sub-Commandante Marcos makes an appearance on our TV screens!

fedupwithpolitics June 27th, 2007 7:52 am

fd32

I had Al Franken’s number a long time ago–he’s the worst of the left.

baska June 27th, 2007 9:16 am

RE: from FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING: “CBS’s Sicko Spin: Americans Don’t Want Single-Payer Health—Except They Do”

“WASHINGTON - JUNE 25 - On the June 22 broadcast of CBS Evening News, reporter Jeff Greenfield’s critique of Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko relied on a single premise: that the U.S. public and its political leaders do not embrace Moore’s preferred solution (a single-payer system, where medical care is provided by private doctors and hospitals but paid for by the government). But that argument is at odds with the available evidence.”

MORE:
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0625-08.htm

Poet June 27th, 2007 9:53 am

Make a sign–Use your printer and select 72 point type bold type. On an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper the sign should read:

“The time for single-payer, Universal coverage, government run healthcare is NOW!”

Then scotch tape it on the inside rear window so everybody passing you or behind you in traffic can see it. In so doing you will raise conscienseness and maybe make a friend or two in the process. It’s cheap, it’s effective, and anyone with a word processing program and printer can do it.

If we start now and all do it maybe we can have single-payer, universal coverage, government-run, health care before we all die. At the very least we can change the conversation on health care reform. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful legacy to leave our descendents?

peaceman June 27th, 2007 11:37 am

Some good posts on this important issue, brothers and sisters. I like Rose Ann DeMoro. She took on our “terminator” governor when he belittled the California nurses union, along with the teachers union. Rose is a progressive woman, and not afraid to take on the monopolistic corporate “bosses”. I think MM’s film SICKO, will do well at the box office ( I hope it does ), and the American working -class, which means at least 90% of the population should see it and then act on it. Thom Hartmann has talked about the health care issue for years and has written about it also. Earlier this year, there was a report somewhere on Common Dreams by the U.N. or another organization rating “industrialized nations in health care for it’s citizens. France and Italy were first on the list, Germany dropped to 16th place, and guess who came in “46″th on the list with the highest costs?

But getting back to the original content of this article, when Andy Stern led the revolt against John Sweeney and the AFL-CIO, I figured it could go either way. Since the Reagan years when Ronnie boy was in the back pocket of big business and against the working-class: who adored him, ( ignorance is not bliss- it is unforgivable! ) we have seen one corporate merger after another and what we have today is monopolistic/corporations, as the Sherman Anti-Trust Laws have been swept aside. Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader and many other progressive thinkers have written and lectured on this subject. The Question is: why would you want to split an already weak labor organization into two parts? Remember the saying, UNITED WE STAND,DIVIDED WE FALL ?

As some of you have stated, the Taft-Hartly Act has to be abolished, to help rebuild the trade-union movement, but what “DEMOCRAT” would even mention this? Correct me if I’m wrong. Look how yesterday’s Union Organizing legislation bill, was defeated by a 51-48 vote in the Senate. Too many Democratic Party politicians take the union vote for granted, and most union officials support Democrats who are basically in “cahoots” with the “monied class”. Birds of a feather flock together.

Until the working class does the homework and the research, and really actively participates in the labor movement, it is going to get worse for us, people. The corporatists want to eliminate the “middle-class” and reduce us to serfs. Where in the hell is the allegiance to American workers and this country by the corporate bosses and their flunkies in Congress?

Single-payer health care does work and if you want it you’re gonna have to fight for it. When all working people, and I mean anybody that works for a living, white-collar, blue-collar,no-collar, professional, skilled, un-skilled, and semi-skilled, get together and form a bond and TAKE TO THE STREETS, WITHOLD YOUR LABOR, until all these wrongs are righted, our plight will worsen. And that goes for all you non-union folks, also. Get involved!

baska June 27th, 2007 11:46 am

RE: POSTERS WHO START AND END BY BASHING SEIU ARE NOT EDUCATING OR PERSUADING READERS

bomp June 26th, 2007 10:48 pm
“What do you expect from this pathetic undemocratic union. I used to work for SEIU. SEIU are getting used by their ‘leadership’. Their union is a fraud. I couldn’t lie to the members anymore. I couldn’t live off blood money and mouth Andy Stern’s lies anymore.”

1) YEa, I have problems w/Stern too - and it stinks they’re not supporting single payer. But they do some good when they - and other NYC unions - work together to support my weak teacher’s union (United Federation of Teachers) in NYC.

2) This bashing/debunking approach doesn’t educate or persuade anyone about SEIU.

3) a) “SEIU are getting used by their ‘leadership’.”
How?

b) “Their union is a fraud.”
Please give examples. Is everything they do fraudulent, in your view?

c) “I couldn’t lie to the members anymore.”
What lies were you telling?

d) “I couldn’t live off blood money…anymore”
“Blood money”? Please explain, specifically, what you are referring to.

4) Readers interested in critical discussions of the SEIU, see, for example:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2268/gods_and_mortals/
Gods and Mortals
The AFL-CIO’s split may impact smaller state and local federations the most
By David Moberg

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2974/does_andy_stern_talk_his_walk/
Does Andy Stern Talk His Walk?
High-profile victories by SEIU often run counter to its president’s rhetoric about the ‘power of persuasion’
By David Moberg

Paleoliberal September 3rd, 2007 10:21 pm

It’s worth noting that some affiliates of the SEIU have now endorsed single-payer care:

http://www.healthcare-now.org/shownews.php?nid=478&sid=&subid=

My thought is that there is an ongoing internal struggle that may not be won by simply walking away from the SEIU.

The SEIU will come around to single-payer; this is inevitable, as the single-payer system makes sense. But it might take some yakking. Big organizations, like the Dems or the SEIU, don’t change course quickly.

I agree with all the hardball talk, BTW; I think everyone should speak loudly.

Paleoliberal September 3rd, 2007 10:31 pm

Just a postscript: I hope you’re all planning on voting for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries. He’s the only solidly single-payer candidate the Dems are offering.

Organize1199 April 8th, 2008 11:48 am

It’s DeMoro who is on the side of the bosses. LITERALLY. Rose Ann Demoro ran a VOTE NO campaign to keep 8,000 Ohio hospital workers in the CHP system from joining the union last month.

I worked on the campaign for over three years. It was a massive fight. CHP is the 6th largest employer in Ohio. CNA had nothing to do with the campaign until we got a fair rules agreement for a secret ballot election.

They dropped in 36 organizers (according to them), and ran a vicious campaign saying SEIU was a company union which made a “sleazy back room deal” to “FORCE” RNs into a “non-RN union”. The lit was packed with lies and inflammatory and violent language. The neutral atmosphere was poisoned and the elections were canceled. CNA left for the hills and 8,000 Ohio families got screwed.

Here’s a video with CHP workers talking about their experience:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPOiFNQQBY

Here’s a link with more about the CNA’s union-busting and anti-worker behavior:

http://shameoncna.com/

abbybwood June 26th, 2007 12:53 pm

Single payer. The same health care standards for every American as all members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives enjoy.

Same aspirin, same MRI’s, same I.V. solutions, same linens, same medication alternatives, same high quality doctors and nurses, same standards of care….all covered by the fact that we are citizens who live and work here and pay our fair share to do so.

Period. Cradle to the grave care. Whether you’re in The White House or the poor house.
COMarc June 26th, 2007 12:55 pm

Michael Moore and the Colorado Nurses held a rally here in Denver last weekend. I couldn’t make it, so I looked in the crappy corporate paper to see what I could find out.

What I noticed is the subtle switch in names that this article points out. The crappy local corporate newspaper never used the words “single payer”. Instead, they made the subtle switch to “universal health care.” Thus the crappy local corporate paper co-opted Mr. Moore’s real message and subtlely turned it into support for the crappy corporate insurance company health care that the goddamn Democrats are pushing. The crappy corporate paper subtlely morphed Michael Moore into the disgusting crappy corporate Democrats.

I know which side I’m on. And its not with the crappy corporate Democrats.
fd32 June 26th, 2007 1:35 pm

“you must be at least this tall to go on this ride”. Standard carnival litmus test. “you must bow and scrape to your corporate masters to go on this ride”. Standard congressional litmus test.
Yellow Horse June 26th, 2007 1:57 pm

Regardless of what most people are willing to believe; there is very little difference between the Democrats or Republicans. None of us will ever experience (nor have we yet) a true democracy until the corrupt election system is cleaned up. The insurance companies (and big business in general) are major contributors to campaign coffers of both parties. When elected the candidate becomes the office holder, and immediately begins to prepare for re-election, while making decisions in chambers that do the bidding for their major contributors , i.e. big business—and it goes on and on. There will be no relief for anyone until the election system is changed.
A single point would be to simply limit the amount that ANYONE whether individual, corporation, or industry may contribute to an election campaign. This could be limited to $2000.00, per entity, and the single contribution can be to either the party or the candidate, but not both.
This could be considered “limiting free speech” but that is an argument that would be made by the establishment that presently enjoys the advantage. Free speech is inherently limited. If for example one were to say “I’d like to shoot that miserable (expletive) in the White House” this would be considered a threat and the speaker could be jailed. Is that free speech? No it’s not, but limitations are recognized and enforced and therefore so could the limits to contributions made to election campaigns.
Big business has always had the upper hand of control over the politicians. If the people of the USA want a true democracy then they must change what we have now into one. What we have now is a modern form of an “Oligarchy”

If the conservative element actually believe that it is worth thousands of shattered lives, death and destruction on BOTH sides, and billions of tax payers dollars to bring “democracy” to a nation that does not WANT democracy, then why not spend some money at home to clean our own house first. For example the candidates who win the individual primaries would be eligible for federal funds for their campaigns, after they spend their contributions, or the feds could match the contributions, or some other form, OTHER THAT WHAT IS IN USE PRESENTLY.
Then the USA would have the “moral high ground” to “judge others”.

And for the “bible thumper” out there, see
Matt 5:1-7

Yellow Horse
PJD June 26th, 2007 2:12 pm

I’m getting very suspicious of the SEIU and maybe even the whole “change to win” movement they lead. They’re even getting in bed with Wal-Mart management.
Vern June 26th, 2007 2:42 pm

Yellow Horse:

How did campaign contributions ever get defined as “free speech” anyway?

What am I missing? Is the speech part in declaring what the money is given in relation too—and then wouldn’t it constitute a bribe?

This is sort of like the Supreme court strained reasoning for awarding Bush the presidency. I never could see how that could stand up either.

People are out for Cheney in his abuse of power, but what can anyone do about Scalia and the other Supreme court thugs from Trenton NJ?
fedupwithpolitics June 26th, 2007 2:55 pm

I’m not surprised that Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) does not support single payer. Klobuchar is turning into quite the right wing conservative sham–after campaigning as a progressive. She also voted to fund the Iraq war. I hope she doesn’t intend to run again–we don’t need anymore right wingers in Minnesota.
fd32 June 26th, 2007 3:11 pm

fedupwithpolitics,

Be careful before you vote for Al Franken, be very careful. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. A Clinton Democrat in every respect. Pro-business, pro-Israel, Anti-Arab, pro-war, absolutely no moral scruples.
COMarc June 26th, 2007 3:20 pm

Standard operating proceedure for Democrats in general. Talk like a progressive, then go govern too the benefit to your corporate paymasters. Then wait till next election cycle and talk like a progressive again.

To me, the (D) after a name on the ballot basically means ‘no good lying SOB who’s just saying anything to get elected’. Obviously I’m sick of wasting my vote on this scum.
oneguy June 26th, 2007 3:50 pm

Can I get a shout out to IMPEACH CHENEY!!!!
Gene Therapy June 26th, 2007 4:53 pm

It appears that SEIU has been infiltrated by corporate interests … in this case insurance companies.

This is nothing new. I can hardly think of a major organization that originally was counter to some industrial/corporate set of interests that wasn’t ultimately infiltrated by those very corporate interests.

A classic example is the forest products industry — timber and paper — that now has the entire “environmental movement” well within its clutches, including Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society.
Jimmy Higgins June 26th, 2007 5:33 pm

While the rank and file toil away and float the union with our bread and our blood, the union leaders sell us out, just like Bush and Cheney sell us out. The SEIU is US, brothers and sisters. Take back the power! We cannot let them use our voice to speak praise to power. We speak TRUTH to POWER. Insurance companies are a racket and always have been. It is time to take them out of the picture when it comes to our HEALTH. Their structure is designed to KILL US before they have to PAY US. Delay until the insured is no longer insurable. And what good is approval of a procedure once you’re dead? A lawsuit, maybe, that your family can always fight and never win. Their lives taken, bit by bit, in a rigged battle in the Courts where money always prevails and the new Supreme Courtesans are waiting to strike down ANY decision that protects the REAL people of this country! Insurance companies, through their own worship of profits and indifference to their mission of serving and saving people, have brought about their own demise. Shout out the truth about Universal Coverage, and let them know that it is time we were a SINGLE PAYER country.

And, brothers and sisters, let’s take back our Unions. Those at the top who picture themselves as peers of the CEOs around them instead of servants of the Brothers and Sisters on the SHOP FLOOR need to spend some time in the unemployment line and remember where it is they come from!
tj June 26th, 2007 5:48 pm

“CNA executive director Rose Ann DeMoro is a touch less subtle.

‘Rather than being on the side of the workers, SEIU continues to be on the side of the bosses,’ DeMoro told Corporate Crime Reporter. “And it’s a disgrace.”

‘And the problem is that SEIU is giving cover to these Senators – it makes them look like they are accomplishing something when in fact they are accomplishing nothing. These legislators are gutless, and the SEIU is giving them cover.’”

It is refreshing to hear such absolutely clear (and correct) language from a US labor leader. It’s worth looking at the co-optation of the SEIU on this and other issues - as well as much of the US labor movement - in some depth, especially since the SEIU bills itself as the nation’s largest health care union.

In the 1980s, there was a relatively large single-payer movement within US labor unions, primarily concentrated around the large industrial unions like the Autoworkers, Mine Workers and Steelworkers - all vestiges of the old Congress of Industrial Organizations, which became the CIO in the AFL-CIO.

Their position, while narrowly self-interested, was clear and understandable: if health insurance is taken out of the collective bargaining equation, there is more money for things like wages and pensions. And those union negotiators who could count were becoming more aware by the day that health insurance, especially for retirees, would soon become an unbearable cost that the joint union/employer-funded and administered Taft-Hartley benefits funds could not support.

But this consensus among the former CIO unions, especially the Autoworkers, eroded with the decline of their influence within the Democratic Party (as the DLC took over), and the party’s growing internal weakness and growing powerlessness.

And there is this: by the 1980’s, US Taft-Hartley benefits funds and other industrial funds had become the single largest pool of capital in human history. Lots of people in the union bureaucracies benefited directly by becoming fund trustees, administrators, etc. So they had a direct economic incentive to perpetuate a system that would eventually help to contribute to the demise of the US labor movement as a socially progressive (and even relevant) force.

In the case of the SEIU and other unions, the situation is even worse because they own and operate clinics, self-insure their members (often with lousy benefits and high co-pays), etc. The funds for these institutions come from employers in negotiations, so the unions and employers become siamese twins, and the unions’ role of representing the interests of their members is thoroughly corrupted. The ideology of “business unionism,” manifests itself quite concretely.

Meanwhile, flash forward to June 2007 and “Sicko” hits the streets, doing what unions could and should have been doing for decades: pushing universal single-payer health insurance for all.

But Andy Stern, the head of the SEIU, like DLC Democrats, has revealed himself as nothing more than a corporate flack with a luxurious vacation home on the Carolina Shores who (as others have pointed out) shills for Wal-Mart, Republican candidates on many occasions, and the private health care industry and big pharma - even as they destroy the lives of his often low-paid members.

(Many SEIU contracts, especially among low-paid contract cleaning workers and health care workers, have “won” wages slightly above the minimum wage and poor health insurance that only kicks in after working more hours than the bulk of the workers do. These contracts were often achieved after high-visibility “militant” campaigns that threw away power gained in the streets at the bargaining table to promote labor/management “cooperation.

And so De Moro is spot on with her critique: the SEIU - like the majority of US labor unions - continues to be on the side of the bosses while rendering themselves irrelevant, and representative of workers’ interests in name only.

As the movement for single-payer Medicare For All grows, the SEIU and the rest of business labor will eventually jump on, as will the DLC. In the end, it’s a winning movement. And they will claim to have led the struggle. That’s how these things work.

Until that time, the movement for single-payer (much to the enduring shame of those of us who have given our lives and careers to the US union movement) will be driven outside the realm of what is incorrectly called “organized labor.”
Linda Sutton June 26th, 2007 7:23 pm

I would lay odds that it’s only the SEIU leadership that wants universal (corporate-insurance controlled) healthcare. The RANK AND FILE, if they were given a clear choice and told the FACTS about the two, would undoubtably be for SINGLE PAYER. It is the ONLY ONE THAT MAKES SENSE!!!

Many unions suffer from this disconnect with the leaders NOT REPRESENTING their membership…kind of like our electeds don’t represent us either.

So, when union leaders start to whine about the dwindling membership, hey, it’s not ALL because of our corporate media bashing them all the time (although that helps). A great deal of their problem is NOT LISTENING to their constituents….again, a lot like our electeds in Congress.

I’d like to see an organized write-in/call-in to each of our electeds to support the single payer bill that’s before Congress (Conyers/Kucinich–HR676)–read it at govtrack.us. And before writing to your reps, check out opensecret.org and note how much in contributions they’ve gotten from the health industry…and put that in your letter too.
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tj June 26th, 2007 8:16 pm

Linda Sutton:

Your point that union members have little say in their own supposedly-democratic organizations is irrefutable. In many cases, when they do get to vote on contracts, for example, they only see “contract summaries” which are spins of the actual highly-detailed and complex documents. And the devil is always in the details. Many contracts have attached Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) which are secret agreements between union an employer negotiators that members and the general public never see. Sort of like national security directives.

In many other cases, they don’t get to vote on contracts at all, or representatives or shop floor stewards or officers. One of the biggest scandals in labor organizations, is that officers of the two major federations - the AFL-CIO and Change to Win - are not directly elected, but national union officers cast the votes of their membership, much like the undemocratic Electoral College (we often forget amid the noise of political campaigns that US citizens, by our Constitution do not vote for our presidents, but cast advisory votes, which the members of the Electoral College can honor or ignore).

All that said, I don’t have faith that union members, any more than the rest of our population, will act in their own interests when presented the facts.

Let’s take single-payer health insurance. It is not a new concept and has been debated at least since the great debate over Social Security during the last depression. In the 1940’s, I think, there was an up and down vote in the U.S. Congress and single-payer narrowly lost.

It was called “communistic,” which actually it is (or socialistic) and fell to the terror of red-baiting and McCarthyism. Later on, during the Great Society I think, a compromise version was created as Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare has turned out to be a highly successful, efficient and cost-effective program, primarily because it is administered by the federal government (at least until private HMOs became involved).

Medicaid is much more problematic. Although it is funded by a federal/state split, the states administer it in an extremely uneven, incompetent, corrupt and inefficient manner. State politicians and governors are cheaper than federal officials for the private sector to buy, and it is easier for corporations to control states. In many cases, Medicaid is an expensive dysfunctional disaster, but it’s all that most poor folks have in the way of Medical insurance.

Anyway, the point is: all this stuff has been pretty well documented over a long period of time, but people either ignore it because it’s socialism and we can’t do that, don’t care, or are just plain dumb on a massive scale. I think the evidence is overwhelming that consent against your own interests can successfully be manufactured. That’s a huge problem, as are apathy and ignorance.

The good thing about “Sicko” is that id doesn’t just rely on facts, or even present them as a centerpiece; it’s a successful piece of propaganda (putting forward a point of view) that uses a mix of documentary and soap opera tactics to achieve its goals. That is pretty much as far as you can go in the US political arena, where facts don’t matter much - if at all.

Also, we should never underestimate the ceaseless (and more often than you’d think, violent) relentless attacks by corporations and their paid employees in the mainstream media, government and political parties against unions, and even the idea of unions.

This fact does not take off the hook (what passes for) labor leadership for their cowardice, incompetence, ignorance and corruption. It’s simply a reality of living in this society. Class warfare is real, relentless, brutal and the rich and corporations are winning hands down, even as they destroy the possibility of human life on this Earth.
Poet June 26th, 2007 10:24 pm

Vern wonders:

How did campaign contributions ever get defined as “free speech” anyway?

What am I missing? Is the speech part in declaring what the money is given in relation too—and then wouldn’t it constitute a bribe?

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Two things–1)Corporations before our corrupt law and jurisprudence are acorded the status of personhood and 2)corporations lacking any will or volition must “speak” and act throgh paying someone else to advocate their point of view.

Corporations are therefore collective, perpetual, and tyranical asnd their servants are immune from responsibilitiy for what they do in the name of the corporation. Corporations need to be depersonalized by making their principals (the board of directorts, stock holders, and employees)jointly and severally liable as well as criminally responsible for those actions taken by them on behalf of the corporation.
ezeflyer June 26th, 2007 10:48 pm

Sicko starts on Friday. I just checked and luckily it will be showing on ONE out of at least TEN theaters I checked.
bomp June 26th, 2007 10:48 pm

What do you expect from this pathetic undemocratic union. I used to work for SEIU. SEIU are getting used by their ‘leadership’. Their union is a fraud. I couldn’t lie to the members anymore. I couldn’t live off blood money and mouth Andy Stern’s lies anymore. I trust CNA. They are the real deal. Shame on SEIU. Just another corporation. You’ve been warned.
shakker June 27th, 2007 12:16 am

I was always amazed that union leaders could be so chummy on the golf course and at supper clubs with the very business leaders they claimed to be aggressively negotiating worker rights and wages.
xntrk June 27th, 2007 2:04 am

Organized Labor has been on life support since Jimmy Hoffa was forced to testify before Congress back in the 60’s - that was the just about the last blow [unless you count the Flight Controllers in the 80’s]

The Cold War got rid of most of the real union guys by branding them Commies. Hoffa was not a Commie, so he was in bed with the Mafia. The success of this pressure is evident by the total lack of a true labor movement in the US today. There were some fierce battles, but the working guys lost and don’t even know enough about it to complain.

Between McCarthy, The Kennedys, and Reagan there’s not even enough meat on the bones of Labor’s corpse to feed a self-respecting mouse, much less the rats and cockroaches who show up for every election paying off some union boss for his support.

As for Single Payer Health Care, the lovely Ms Clinton took it “off the table” back in the early ’90s when she was supposed to be so gung-ho for ‘Universal Health Care’. It was probably her buddies at the DLC that came up with the phrase ‘it’s off the table’.I guess you could say she did a Pelosi on it before Pelosi was a bad word…

The fact that they both used the same words to deep-six an idea popular with the voting public is indicative of what you can expect from the National Democratic Party.

Unions lost their right to exist when they failed to overturn the Taft Hartley Law, which has been used to take away the right to organize, the right to strike, and allowed the hiring of permanent replacements. Without a revolution, there is no more hope for US Labor then there is for the poor bastards in Chiapis and Oaxaca who are trying to win something for the working class in Southern Mexico.

It’ll be awhile before Sub-Commandante Marcos makes an appearance on our TV screens!
fedupwithpolitics June 27th, 2007 7:52 am

fd32

I had Al Franken’s number a long time ago–he’s the worst of the left.
baska June 27th, 2007 9:16 am

RE: from FAIRNESS AND ACCURACY IN REPORTING: “CBS’s Sicko Spin: Americans Don’t Want Single-Payer Health—Except They Do”

“WASHINGTON - JUNE 25 - On the June 22 broadcast of CBS Evening News, reporter Jeff Greenfield’s critique of Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko relied on a single premise: that the U.S. public and its political leaders do not embrace Moore’s preferred solution (a single-payer system, where medical care is provided by private doctors and hospitals but paid for by the government). But that argument is at odds with the available evidence.”

MORE:
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0625-08.htm
Poet June 27th, 2007 9:53 am

Make a sign–Use your printer and select 72 point type bold type. On an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper the sign should read:

“The time for single-payer, Universal coverage, government run healthcare is NOW!”

Then scotch tape it on the inside rear window so everybody passing you or behind you in traffic can see it. In so doing you will raise conscienseness and maybe make a friend or two in the process. It’s cheap, it’s effective, and anyone with a word processing program and printer can do it.

If we start now and all do it maybe we can have single-payer, universal coverage, government-run, health care before we all die. At the very least we can change the conversation on health care reform. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful legacy to leave our descendents?
peaceman June 27th, 2007 11:37 am

Some good posts on this important issue, brothers and sisters. I like Rose Ann DeMoro. She took on our “terminator” governor when he belittled the California nurses union, along with the teachers union. Rose is a progressive woman, and not afraid to take on the monopolistic corporate “bosses”. I think MM’s film SICKO, will do well at the box office ( I hope it does ), and the American working -class, which means at least 90% of the population should see it and then act on it. Thom Hartmann has talked about the health care issue for years and has written about it also. Earlier this year, there was a report somewhere on Common Dreams by the U.N. or another organization rating “industrialized nations in health care for it’s citizens. France and Italy were first on the list, Germany dropped to 16th place, and guess who came in “46″th on the list with the highest costs?

But getting back to the original content of this article, when Andy Stern led the revolt against John Sweeney and the AFL-CIO, I figured it could go either way. Since the Reagan years when Ronnie boy was in the back pocket of big business and against the working-class: who adored him, ( ignorance is not bliss- it is unforgivable! ) we have seen one corporate merger after another and what we have today is monopolistic/corporations, as the Sherman Anti-Trust Laws have been swept aside. Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader and many other progressive thinkers have written and lectured on this subject. The Question is: why would you want to split an already weak labor organization into two parts? Remember the saying, UNITED WE STAND,DIVIDED WE FALL ?

As some of you have stated, the Taft-Hartly Act has to be abolished, to help rebuild the trade-union movement, but what “DEMOCRAT” would even mention this? Correct me if I’m wrong. Look how yesterday’s Union Organizing legislation bill, was defeated by a 51-48 vote in the Senate. Too many Democratic Party politicians take the union vote for granted, and most union officials support Democrats who are basically in “cahoots” with the “monied class”. Birds of a feather flock together.

Until the working class does the homework and the research, and really actively participates in the labor movement, it is going to get worse for us, people. The corporatists want to eliminate the “middle-class” and reduce us to serfs. Where in the hell is the allegiance to American workers and this country by the corporate bosses and their flunkies in Congress?

Single-payer health care does work and if you want it you’re gonna have to fight for it. When all working people, and I mean anybody that works for a living, white-collar, blue-collar,no-collar, professional, skilled, un-skilled, and semi-skilled, get together and form a bond and TAKE TO THE STREETS, WITHOLD YOUR LABOR, until all these wrongs are righted, our plight will worsen. And that goes for all you non-union folks, also. Get involved!
baska June 27th, 2007 11:46 am

RE: POSTERS WHO START AND END BY BASHING SEIU ARE NOT EDUCATING OR PERSUADING READERS

bomp June 26th, 2007 10:48 pm
“What do you expect from this pathetic undemocratic union. I used to work for SEIU. SEIU are getting used by their ‘leadership’. Their union is a fraud. I couldn’t lie to the members anymore. I couldn’t live off blood money and mouth Andy Stern’s lies anymore.”

1) YEa, I have problems w/Stern too - and it stinks they’re not supporting single payer. But they do some good when they - and other NYC unions - work together to support my weak teacher’s union (United Federation of Teachers) in NYC.

2) This bashing/debunking approach doesn’t educate or persuade anyone about SEIU.

3) a) “SEIU are getting used by their ‘leadership’.”
How?

b) “Their union is a fraud.”
Please give examples. Is everything they do fraudulent, in your view?

c) “I couldn’t lie to the members anymore.”
What lies were you telling?

d) “I couldn’t live off blood money…anymore”
“Blood money”? Please explain, specifically, what you are referring to.

4) Readers interested in critical discussions of the SEIU, see, for example:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2268/gods_and_mortals/
Gods and Mortals
The AFL-CIO’s split may impact smaller state and local federations the most
By David Moberg

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2974/does_andy_stern_talk_his_walk/
Does Andy Stern Talk His Walk?
High-profile victories by SEIU often run counter to its president’s rhetoric about the ‘power of persuasion’
By David Moberg
Paleoliberal September 3rd, 2007 10:21 pm

It’s worth noting that some affiliates of the SEIU have now endorsed single-payer care:

http://www.healthcare-now.org/shownews.php?nid=478&sid=&subid=

My thought is that there is an ongoing internal struggle that may not be won by simply walking away from the SEIU.

The SEIU will come around to single-payer; this is inevitable, as the single-payer system makes sense. But it might take some yakking. Big organizations, like the Dems or the SEIU, don’t change course quickly.

I agree with all the hardball talk, BTW; I think everyone should speak loudly.
Paleoliberal September 3rd, 2007 10:31 pm

Just a postscript: I hope you’re all planning on voting for Dennis Kucinich in the primaries. He’s the only solidly single-payer candidate the Dems are offering.
Organize1199 April 8th, 2008 11:48 am

It’s DeMoro who is on the side of the bosses. LITERALLY. Rose Ann Demoro ran a VOTE NO campaign to keep 8,000 Ohio hospital workers in the CHP system from joining the union last month.

I worked on the campaign for over three years. It was a massive fight. CHP is the 6th largest employer in Ohio. CNA had nothing to do with the campaign until we got a fair rules agreement for a secret ballot election.

They dropped in 36 organizers (according to them), and ran a vicious campaign saying SEIU was a company union which made a “sleazy back room deal” to “FORCE” RNs into a “non-RN union”. The lit was packed with lies and inflammatory and violent language. The neutral atmosphere was poisoned and the elections were canceled. CNA left for the hills and 8,000 Ohio families got screwed.

Here’s a video with CHP workers talking about their experience:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPOiFNQQBY

Here’s a link with more about the CNA’s union-busting and anti-worker behavior:

http://shameoncna.com/

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