Remember how just three weeks ago, SEIU placed UHW in trusteeship for refusing to divide 65,000 homecare and nursing home workers from Kaiser and hospital workers against their will, without a fair election, and without any plan to improve things for them or the people they care for?
Remember how SEIU needed to move all California homecare and nursing home workers into a separate, statewide long term care union, because only then could they have the political voice necessary to take on the Governor's proposed budget cuts?
Well scratch that! Looks like the separate, statewide long term care union just won't sell with the tens of thousands of homecare workers fleeing SEIU and joining NUHW. Never mind, no one will notice a total 180 right? It's just workers we're talking about here...
Here's SEIU's new mailer to Fresno County homecare workers. It claims that workers' achievements were possible because, "we were united together in UHW" and that homecare workers can win more, "by staying united in UHW."
Yes, you read that correctly - SEIU, which placed UHW in trusteeship for insisting that homecare and nursing home workers stay united in UHW, is now campaigning for homecare workers to...STAY UNITED IN UHW! And let's just try to forget the million of dollars of dues money, and hundreds of staffers now mired in a losing war based on a false premise instead of working on EFCA, winning healthcare reform, or defending SEIU members from budget cuts across the country...
Even for SEIU, this is pretty incredible.
