Ohio: Rival Labor Unions Beating Each Other Up
According to CNS News.com:
The effort to unionize Ohio nurses has ended with one labor union accusing another labor union of waging a "vicious union-busting campaign."
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) says nurses at nine Catholic Healthcare Partners hospitals in Ohio were all set to join the SEIU, when the California Nurses Association (CNA) barged in with a "union-busting onslaught."
"Nearly 8,000 nurses and other healthcare workers in Ohio saw their dreams of forming a union derailed today after the California Nurses Association flooded the state with hostile organizers and bombarded workers with wildly false and misleading leaflets and phone calls urging them to vote against the union," SEIU said on Tuesday.
AFL-CIO officials refused to intervene to stop CNA's union-busting campaign, SEIU complained. The California Nurses Association is an AFL-CIO affiliate. The SEIU broke away from the AFL-CIO almost three years ago, and that partly explains the bad blood. With 1.9 million members, SEIU describes itself as the fastest-growing union in North America...click to continue.
