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020964 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Looks like the SEIU whiners have shown up. Guess it wasn't enough that they crashed the meeting and committed A&B on the attendees at the Labor Notes meeting, and had to have a restraining order slapped on them to stop stalking CNA members at their homes and workplaces.
1unionsupporter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
unprofessional has said calling Rose a union-buster is nonsense. I know people at a hospital in ohio and they were all happy to vote for SEIU. CNA came in and passed out lit saying that nurses shouldn't join a union that represents janitors and accused SEIU of lots of stuff that wasn't true. Now 8,000 workers have no representation. Rose is an elitist with no sense of worker solidarity. She used her position in the CNA to prevent union membership. I call that union-busting.
cjgrimes3X3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Rose Ann DeMoro's progressive spin doesn't hide that she places her elitist agenda ahead of the needs of nurses and the labor movement. A real labor leader doesn't disenfranchise nurses. The CNA's union busting has stopped thousands of nurses from forming unions, and it has created a huge roadblock in the labor movement's attempts to create better standards for organizing campaigns. Rose Ann DeMoro: STOP UNION BUSTING--it's bad for nurses, other healthcare workers and the labor movement!
ptntadvocate (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
in ohio, the employer filed the election petition (w/o any show of employee support) hoping the employees would vote in its handpicked union. then the employer withdrew it--obviously because seiu was going to lose. if seiu organized workers instead of employers, its elections might not be so vulnerable. but any exposure of its track record under Stern is too much, isn't it?
unionpower1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
CNA should start organizing and stop trying to plunder other Unions. It is disgraceful that they cost thousands of workers a chance to join the Union in Ohio. It is also disgraceful that a nonviolent protester was attacked by their thugs in Detroit. Stop union busting start organizing!
unprofessionl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
sent out mailers! wow--that's really scary! you're ridiculous.
NowKnowHow (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Are you even paying attention, unpro? CNA sent staff and thousands of mailers with a "vote no" message to Ohio hospital workers just days before their election, and after they had fought for more than three years to ensure the boss - who'd done that in the past - didn't do it again. There is no question that CNA BUSTED THE UNION, and just spins it to fit their elitist "lefter-than-thou" public persona. Shame on union busters, shame on CNA!
unprofessionl (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"union-busting"?! what nonsense. as if discussion among colleagues were equivalent to intimidation, threats, or violence by an employer. CNA didn't prevent the Ohio hospital employees from having a union--it prevented the employer from having one. Of course if your backroom deals can't withstand the light of day, i suppose all you can do is try to divert attention from them by making nonsensical accusations.
NowKnowHow (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
DeBuster's discussion of CNA's opposition to neoliberalism and globalization is EXACTLY the sectarian analysis that has paralyzed labor since the 70s. Economics are real, folks, and globalization don't care if you like it or not. Failure to meet capitalism's developments with equal global organization has resulted in steady weakening of labor, globally. Now that SEIU (+others) make a late effort to adjust so workers have an organized stake in the new economy, CNA insists on continued failure.
NowKnowHow (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Wow, how disgusting. She really tries to justify her union- busting tactics here! Shame on her, shame on the CNA, and shame on the CNA communications staff who can't come up with better talking points than this! Ug! shameoncnaDOTorg |
