Blogs

  • How Could Little NUHW Beat Giant SEIU? Stewards.
    Paul Krehbiel
    February 4, 2010

    Here’s my 2 cents on the NUHW win among the Kaiser Permanente professionals. In my view, it was the result of several key ingredients—but especially the existence of stewards councils that continued on their own even under the SEIU trusteeship:

  • Leaving SEIU and Joining NUHW
    Paul Krehbiel
    December 1, 2009

    As a former staff worker for Service Employees (SEIU) Local 660 (now 721) in Los Angeles from 1998 to 2007, I am appalled by the degeneration of SEIU under the direction of President Andy Stern. Union leaders like to proclaim how SEIU is “bigger,” “stronger,” and “more united” than ever. For member it's a different experience entirely: one member told me he felt like he was in the Twilight Zone.

  • NUHW Supporters Brave Eggs, Bottles in Los Angeles
    Paul Krehbiel
    November 18, 2009

    Attendees at an NUHW forum in Los Angeles had to pass a demonstration of a few hundred SEIU staffers and members who had arrived on buses. The SEIUers chanted, beat on drums, and threw eggs and water bottles in an unsuccessful effort to intimidate people from attending.