Posts tagged CWA Local 1168
Commentary: 1,000 health care workers protest take-over of their local. Are union officials listening?
October 8, 2026 // In 2009, a political disagreement about organizing and bargaining strategy, involving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its second largest healthcare local, led to a costly and disastrous trusteeship in California. Tens of millions of dollars were squandered on this bitter internal fight. Thousands of SEIU members angrily protested the removal of their elected leaders, who faced trumped up charges and a multi-million dollar damage suit. In response to their rights being trampled, rank-and-filers, who only wanted to democratize and reform SEIU, instead created the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), an organizational rival.
Workers rally to shine spotlight on ‘union-busting’ efforts at Orchard Park animal hospital
March 7, 2023 // Workers at a local animal hospital are looking to shine a spotlight on what they are calling “union busting” efforts there. Workers at the Orchard Park Veterinary Medical Center voted to unionize last year, amid worker shortages. As of this time last year, the American Animal Hospital Association reported, there were about $118,000 veterinary technicians in the U.S., at the end of 2019. About two-thirds of those vet techs are not credentialed and by the year 2030.