SEIU - New Lawsuit: CNA Violated State Law in Mass Mailings to I...(the Iowa District Court of Johnson Count...),Health

Date:5/12/2008

the Iowa District Court of Johnson County today on behalf of SEIU Local 199 and the Service Employees International Union by the Iowa-based legal firm Sole, McManus, Pearson & Willems PC and Charles R. Both of Washington, DC. The plaintiffs jointly represent more than 900,000 health care workers across the country, including 5,000 nurses and other health care employees in Iowa.

"The way the CNA used our private list is a reminder of why the U.S. government created the Do-Not-Call List to stop telemarketers," said Pauline Taylor, a registered nurse. "SPAM, sales calls, mailers from other unions -- it's all the same when it's unwanted."

The lawsuit filed today is the most recent legal action taken against the CNA in response to the California nurse group's dishonest and anti-union tactics. Despite the majority of its own membership being based in Northern California, the CNA has a track record of using underhanded tactics nationally to prevent nurses from joining SEIU and other unions. In March, the CNA sent a team of more than 30 union organizers to Ohio to sabotage a three-year effort by nurses and other hospital workers in Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP) hospitals to win a fair process to freely choose whether to form a union with SEIU. Just six days before a union election for 8,300 CHP workers, the CNA's organizers descended on the hospitals with a vicious and misleading "vote no" campaign using tactics such as dressing in nurses' scrubs to gain access to patient-care delivery areas, posing as pizza delivery workers, and sending messages through the hospitals' pneumatic tube system.

The CNA is also continuing to hurt nurses and other hospital workers in its efforts to raid hospitals where workers already have a union voice in states including California, in Nevada, and in Texas. Overall, eighteen states have already reported anti-union campaigns by the CNA.

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