{"id":1608,"date":"2005-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"kaiser-permanente-and-seiu-union-hit-with-federal-charges-for-forcing-unwanted-union-on-employees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/kaiser-permanente-and-seiu-union-hit-with-federal-charges-for-forcing-unwanted-union-on-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Permanente and SEIU Union Hit with Federal Charges for Forcing Unwanted Union on Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Portland, OR (November 7, 2005)<\/strong> \u2013 A local health care worker filed federal unfair labor practice charges after union officials gained monopoly bargaining power over Kaiser Permanente employees by deceiving them into signing union \u201cauthorization\u201d cards.   In granting Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 49 officials monopoly bargaining authority, Kaiser violated its own contract with the union which requires \u201cprivate elections\u201d for the union to be recognized, and only after such elections are requested by more than half of the employees.  Karen Mayhew, who works in the Patient Business Services Department at a local Kaiser office, obtained free legal assistance from attorneys with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in filing the charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for herself and roughly 65 similarly situated employees.   Mayhew also filed a petition for decertification of the unwanted union within days of Kaiser\u2019s granting SEIU officials monopoly bargaining power over the 65 workers affected. However, under the so-called \u201cvoluntary recognition bar rule,\u201d created by the NLRB, workers cannot petition for an election for up to a year after a union gains recognition. Foundation attorneys have requested that the petition for election not be dismissed because a separate Foundation-assisted case challenging that rule\u2019s validity is pending before the full NLRB in Washington, DC.   \u201cAll too often, union bosses use misrepresentations and coercion during union organizing drives, and we are hopeful that the federal labor board will take swift action,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cUnion officials\u2019 illegal behavior shows that they do not respect the workers they seek to represent. They simply thirst for additional sources of forced union dues revenues.\u201d       Kaiser granted recognition to SEIU union officials based on the results of this \u201ccard check\u201d scheme, even though the agreement between the company and union specifically states that recognition will only be granted after workers have a secret-ballot election to determine majority support of the union. Furthermore, several workers will submit statements that Kaiser held a meeting with its employees during which union officials explicitly told workers that signing the \u201ccards\u201d was not a vote for unionization, but instead was a request to hold a secret-ballot election and receive more information.       The NLRB Region will investigate the charges and determine whether to issue a formal complaint. It will also make a decision on the disposition of the decertification petition in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR (November 7, 2005) \u2013 A local health care worker filed federal unfair labor practice charges after union officials gained monopoly bargaining power over Kaiser Permanente employees by deceiving them into signing union \u201cauthorization\u201d cards. 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