Internal Documents Show Nursing Home Workers And Patients Were Sold Out in California
Saturday, April 14th, 2007.
Oakland, CA - The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is making public internal memos and agreements between Andy Stern’s Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and nursing home operators that show just how Stern sold nursing home workers out. The nursing home workers lost their rights to strike, complain publicly about quality of care problems and improve their pay and benefits under the secret Stern-backed agreements with nursing home owners.
Nursing home operators got the unions’ lobbying clout for more Medicaid dollars, for tort reform measures and against safe staffing requirements in nursing homes. SEIU got the right to represent workers, if shoddily, and to receive dues.
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