Pressing its case to Kaiser workers to abandon the SEIU, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) has established a new website urging employees to vote in its favor in the historic representation election being conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The web site, www.kaisercoworkers.org, purports to answer questions by employees voting in the election, but is composed mostly of campaign-style advocacy. The site contains endorsements by members who assert NUHW will be a stronger and more rigorous bargaining representative than SEIU. For instance, it lambasts SEIU for establishing a “healthcare benefits takeaway committee” with Kaiser, and accuses SEIU of cooperating with Kaiser to allow cuts in employees’ pension plan, elimination of more than 1,700 jobs, and conversion of secure jobs into insecure “flex” positions.  Ironically, however, the site also assures employees that their current contract will remain in place and that recent wage increases negotiated by the SEIU will not be lost if NUHW replaces SEIU.  Continue reading this entry at Littler's Health Care Employment Counsel blog.