Our job is to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. Nearly 20,000 members of SEIU Local 1199NY marched through the streets of Manhattan yesterday to a rally to demand that the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Nursing Homes of New York get serious about contract talks. The union is currently negotiating on behalf of 50,000 healthcare workers at 35 city hospital. Their contract is set to expire July 1. We began these negotiations fourteen months ago, but management has yet to address our critical issues.
Job security is the top issue in the talks.
Local 660 already represents 600 Los Angeles municipal court workers and is seeking to organize the county's 23 other muni-cipal courts to build union density. Concerns over restructuring has led to strong union support in the courts, which must be organized separately. Elections will be held in each jurisdiction in the next three weeks. Local 49 Wins Residual Units SEIU Local 49 won two elections on June 12 for residual units at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Oregon. A unit of 105 phlebotomists voted 46 to 28 for the union.