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Fresno Homecare Workers, Consumers, and Community Members March against SEIU Harassment

by Mike Rhodes (editor [at] Fresnoalliance.com)
About 60 homecare workers and their allies rallied in front of the Service Employees International Union-UHW office in Fresno today. The workers want to disaffiliate from SEIU and join the National Union of Health Care Workers (NUHW). The union locked their doors, hid behind the curtains, took pictures of the members at the rally, and called the police. SEIU-UHW staff would not allow their own union members into the building.
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Here is the Press Release, sent out by NUHW about today’s rally:

In-Home Healthcare workers, consumers, and community members will rally and then march to SEIU-UHW's Fresno office to demand that SEIU allow their union elections to proceed free from intimidation and fear. SEIU has mounted a campaign of retaliation throughout Fresno County and across California against healthcare workers who are rejecting the scandal-plagued union. SEIU's harassment of local home healthcare workers is disrupting the quality of care being provided in people’s homes.

On March 2 more than 2,500 Fresno County homecare workers filed petitions with Fresno County calling for an election for more than 10,000 local in-home healthcare workers to leave SEIU and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) along with more than 80,000 of their fellow healthcare workers throughout California who have also filed for elections to leave SEIU.

SEIU has used legal tricks to block workers' elections across the state, and used threats and intimidation to prevent them from making a free choice. At some facilities, SEIU staff has colluded with management to have workers suspended or terminated for supporting NUHW.

“No lawsuits, no retaliation, no delays. We have the right to vote now!" said Mary Padilla. “We won't allow the SEIU to intimidate and harass us. We are committed to providing the highest quality care for our consumers and we won't let the SEIU get in our way."

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§Writing Notes to the SEIU Staff
by Mike Rhodes
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The SEIU staff locked the doors and called the police.
§NUHW is Here to Stay
by Mike Rhodes
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§SEIU Go Away!
by Mike Rhodes
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§Our Union, Our Vote
by Mike Rhodes
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The workers want the right to vote on which union will represent them. They are tired of SEIU harassment, intimidation, and stalling tactics.
§Our Union, Our Vote
by Mike Rhodes
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