For the past few years Rosselli and Stern have been at each other's throats over several issues revolving around labor-organizing strategy and tactics. Chief among these has been Stern's attempt to remove 65,000 members from the 150,000-strong UHW -- members who mostly work as long-term caregivers to shut-ins -- and place them in the L.A.-based SEIU local that until recently was run by its disgraced president, Tyrone Freeman. Stern's Washington-headquartered SEIU executive board has accused Rosselli of using the $500,000 to wage a propaganda and legal war against this effort. Rosselli denies the accusation, claiming the money is strictly intended for patient education. Marshall has essentially decided the UHW can escape trusteeship only if it formally submits, within five days of his decree, to the transfer of its contested members to the L.A. local and stops fighting the national leadership. That leadership wasted no time in endorsing Marshall's findings, while a UHW press release called his report "a sad day for the American labor movement and those who that social movements should be led from the bottom up, rather than the top down." http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/city-news/has-the-fat-lady-sung-for-rebe/