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Sal Rosselli

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    UHW: SEIU Can't Fire Us -- We Quit!

    Likening the takeover of their union local to an act of "martial law," leaders of the Oakland-based United Healthcare Workers-West announced the formation of a new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, that would have members in Los Angeles. During a teleconference with media, UHW preside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    SEIU Brings Out the Guillotine

    A press release just issued by the Washington headquarters of the Service Employees Union International announced it has served trusteeship papers on its rebel health-care workers local, known as the United Healthcare Workers-West. The Oakland-based UHW, headed by its president, Sal Rosselli, has be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    UHW's Rosselli Backs Away from Breakaway Threat

    In a telephone press conference held today at his Oakland headquarters, Sal Rosselli was sounding conciliatory. Or was he? Earlier this month, when the executive board of the Service Employees International Union voted to merge three long-term health-care locals into one mega-unit, Rosselli's local, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Has the Fat Lady Sung for Rebel Healthcare Union?

    Yesterday an outside arbitrator hired to sort out the accusations, counter-charges and bad blood in general between the United Healthcare Workers-West and its parent union, the Service Employees Union International, issued his report. It fell an inch or two short of calling for the rebellious UHW to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    SEIU v. SEIU

    The war between the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Service Employees Union International and its huge rebel local, called the United Healthcare Workers-West, continues to heat up. Last week SEIU's international executive board approved the absorption of the 150,000-strong UHW into a 240,000-me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    SEIU Drops the Other Shoe -- And Has It Thrown Back

    Last Friday the Service Employees International Union announced that its executive board had voted to merge three of its California branches of long-term health-care workers into one mega-local. This would add 90,000-members from SEIU state locals 6434 and 521, to the union's 150,000-member United H ... More >>

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Union Triage

    The fight for hospital workers involves two unions against each other – and a health-care giant

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    Cheap L.A.

    Other countries are more generous with home-care workers

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