[lbo-talk] First Unionized Hospital in Texas

[Jim Straub]

Yeah, the CNA recently pulled some astoundingly fucked up shit in  
Ohio.  Very, very, very disappointing for what was once at least a  
very principled left-leaning craft union.  I hate to say it but I have  
a feeling that a very, very ugly and drawn-out war between seiu and  
the cna has begun, and its going to get BAD.  Which is depressing  
enough to obliterate any hope I was nourishing last year about the  
prospects for new gains in industrial unionism in the private-sector  
healthcare industry.  I wish I had more contacts inside the CNA to get  
a sense of what internal dynamics have driven them to some of the lows  
they're reaching as they raid other unions campaigns.  Maybe the  
strain of taking their program nationwide has put some unsavory  
characters in new positions of power in their organizing department or  
something.  really, I predict a war between seiu and the cna that  
makes seiu's tiffs with afscme seem like the height of trade union  
solidarity.

Ugly times ahead in the union movement in healthcare, people.

On Mar 30, 2008, at 4:03 PM, lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org wrote:


>  12. Re: First Unionized Hospital in Texas (Mark Rickling)